* The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in
U.S. equities increased 49% from last year. On the NASDAQ OMX
Nordic and Baltic Markets, average daily equity trade counts rose
6.2% from May 2007.
* For the fourteenth consecutive month, The NASDAQ Stock Market
had the largest matched market share of U.S.-listed equities at
29.2%.
* The NASDAQ Stock Market's matched market share in NYSE-listed
stocks reached a record 21.8%.
* Exchange traded fund (ETF) average daily share volume matched on
The NASDAQ Stock Market rose 80.1% from one year ago.
* The average daily value of bond trading on NASDAQ OMX Nordic
markets increased 247% from May 2007.
Equities Trading
The average daily value traded on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled USD 86.7 billion (EUR 55.7 billion) in May 2008 as compared with USD 66.4 billion (EUR 49.1 billion) in May 2007, representing an increase of 30.6% (13.5%). The average daily number of trades executed on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled 9.2 million in May 2008, representing a 47.6% increase from the same month last year.
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities was 2.0 billion shares in May 2008, an increase of 25.8% from May 2007. The NASDAQ Stock Market's matched share of U.S. equity volume in May 2008 was more than any other U.S. exchange for the fourteenth consecutive month at 29.2%, compared with 28.9% during the same period last year. The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities increased 48.8% from last year.
Average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 838 million shares in May 2008, representing a 77.5% increase compared with the same period last year. NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last month was a record 21.8%, up from 15.6% in May 2007. Average daily matched volume in NASDAQ-listed securities was 856 million shares, a two percent increase from the previous month.
During the month of May, 18.6% of NASDAQ's matched volume resulted from non-displayed orders, adding 370.2 million shares of dark liquidity to the NASDAQ book.
On all the Nordic and Baltic Markets, the average daily number of trades was 188.6 thousand in May 2008, an increase of 6.2% from May 2007. In May 2008, average daily value traded was USD 5.9 billion (EUR 3.8 billion).
Derivatives Trading
The average daily volume in all equity and fixed-income derivative products traded on the Nordic Exchanges totaled 425.0 thousand contracts in May 2008. The average daily trading volume in share products, index products and fixed income products changed -8.0%, 14.0%, and 13.0%, respectively, compared with May 2007.
An additional 145.6 thousand Nordic equity derivative contracts traded on the EDX derivatives exchange on an average daily basis during May 2008, an increase of 25.5% from 116.0 thousand in May 2007.
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Trading
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in May 2008 was 320 million shares, more than any other U.S. exchange, representing a gain of 80.1% from the same period last year. Matched market share in U.S. ETFs last month was 35.7%.
The average daily value traded in ETFs on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic region last month totaled EUR 159 million.
Bond Trading
The average daily value traded in fixed income securities on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic region in May 2008 amounted to EUR 216 million, compared with EUR 62 million during the same month last year -- an increase of 247% from May 2007.
