Eurex Group has released its February 2013 figures, which show an increase in daily volume contracts but a decline in repo.
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 9 million contracts, up 0.3 million year-on-year. Of those, 6.3 million were Eurex Exchange contracts, down 0.3 million from this time last year, and 2.7 million contracts were traded at the US based international Securities Exchange, the same figure as recorded last year.
Eurex repo, which operates Swiss franc, Euro repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded 213 billion euros average outstanding volume in all repo markets, a decline of 23.4 billion euros year-on-year.
The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached 21.8 million contracts, down 8.3 million contracts year-on-year. Equity options totalled 16.6 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 5.2 million contracts.
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