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Eurex Sets Worldwide Trading Record In January
40.2 million contracts traded at Eurex during first month of the year/ Records also posted in Bobl,
Shaz and derivatives on Euro STOXX
Frankfurt/Main, 01 Feb 2000
The derivatives market, Eurex, set several new records again in January: With a volume of 40.2 million
contracts traded, Eurex beat the previous record of 38.4 million contracts traded in June 1999, setting another
worldwide standard. The January contract volume is about 70.7 percent higher than the number posted in the
same month of last year, roughly two and a half times the total volume traded in all of business year 1990, the
first full year of trading at DTB Deutsche Terminbörse, the German options and financial futures exchange at
that time.
In January, the BUND future was again the world's most heavily traded futures contract. Some 14.5 million
contracts were traded at Eurex, the second-best performance on a monthly basis (the record was set in June
1999 with 16.4 million contracts traded). Year on year, trading in the BUND future grew 65.5 percent. A new
turnover record was also set in the Bobl future with some 6.3 million contracts traded, topping the 6 million
contract mark for the first time and surpassing the previous year's volume by 145 percent. Record trading
volume was also posted in the Shaz future in January with 2.86 million contracts traded, beating the previous
record of 2.58 million contracts traded in October 1999 and and tripling the number traded in January 1999.
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