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NYSE Euronext Reports Monthly Transaction Activity
added: 2007-07-10

NYSE Euronext announced transaction activity data1 for its six cash equities exchanges and six derivatives exchanges. As the world’s leading and most diversified global exchange group, NYSE Euronext operates the world’s largest and most liquid cash equities market centers.

CASH PRODUCTS

Euronext

* Euronext’s cash markets registered their second busiest month ever with 27.1 million transactions completed in June 2007, up 36.3% from the same month last year. This represents a record average daily volume of 1.3 million, up 42.8% on June 2006. In total, 148.7 million cash transactions were registered on Euronext since the beginning of the year, up 27.9% from the same period in 2006, a record half-year.

* Euronext reported 26 million transactions registered in Equities in June 2007, up 36.6% from the same month last year, representing a record daily average of 1.2 million transactions, up 43.1% year-on-year.

* Year-on-year average daily transactions on Euronext were up 113.4% on Exchange-Traded Funds, up 32.3% on Structured Products, which include warrants and certificates, and up 20.8% on Bonds.

NYSE Group

* NYSE Group exchanges reported 2.9 billion shares handled2 per day, up 8.9% year-to-date.

* NYSE Group’s operations in NYSE-listed securities reported 2.3 billion shares handled per day, up 12.4% from the same month last year and 11.3% year-to-date.

* As the largest liquidity pool for ETFs, NYSE Group’s operations in ETF trading reported 292 million shares handled daily, up 26.2% from the same period last year and 31.8% year-to-date.

* NYSE Group volume reached a new all-time record with nearly 5.2 billion shares traded on Friday, June 22, 2007, including record Crossing Session II volume of nearly 1.4 billion shares traded. NYSE Group exchanges also registered new monthly and quarterly record volumes in June with 60.7 billion shares traded during the month and 166.3 billion shares traded during the quarter.

LISTINGS

NYSE Euronext

* There were 39 new listings (IPOs, closed-end funds and transfers) and 12 new ETF listings on NYSE Euronext’s markets in June 2007.

Euronext

* There were 18 IPOs on Euronext’s markets in June 2007, including 6 new listings on Alternext. This brings the total number of IPOs listed since the beginning of the year to a record of 70, with €3.9/$5.3 billion raised in connection with listing, as compared to 62 during the same period in 2006. Additionally, 6 new ETFs were listed on NextTrack in June 2007.

NYSE Group

* In June, there were 27 new listings on NYSE Group markets, including 6 ETFs. These listings included 6 domestic IPOs by operating companies raising $5.1/€3.8 billion, 3 international IPOs raising $2.8/€2.1 billion, 1 international transfer to the NYSE from Nasdaq and 4 domestic spin-offs. These listings also included 7 closed-end funds raising $3.4/€2.5 billion as compared to 2 funds raising $785/€581.3 million in June of 2006.

* In June, the New York Stock Exchange served as the premier gateway for India-based companies raising capital in the U.S. with two of the largest offerings by Indian companies: ICICI and Sterlite Industries raising $6.0/€4.4 billion.

DERIVATIVES PRODUCTS

Liffe

* Liffe experienced its busiest month ever trading 89.8 million futures and options contracts in June 2007, up 31.9% on the same month in 2006 and up 38.2% on a daily average basis, and over 452 million contracts year-to-date, up 16.9% on the same period last year. June 7 was Liffe’s busiest day ever, with 8.9 million futures and options contracts, beating the previous record of 6.9 million contracts on March 13, 2007.

* Bclear, Liffe’s wholesale equity derivatives administration and clearing service, processed a record 16.7 million contracts during the month and is up 95.6% year-to-date.

* Interest rate products traded over 46 million contracts in June and over 238 million contracts year-to-date, up 13.5% from the same period in 2006. Liffe’s flagship contract, the Three Month Euribor Future, traded a record monthly volume of 21.9 million contracts.

* Equity products traded over 42 million contracts in the month, up 42.3% on June 2006, and more than 207 million contracts year-to-date, up 20.7% year-on-year. Liffe's Universal Stock Futures had their busiest month ever, trading 12.6 million contracts.

* Liffe’s Commodity products had a record month trading 1.2 million contracts.

NYSE Arca

* NYSE Arca reported 1.2 million equity option contracts executed per day in June 2007, up 89% from the same month last year, and up 5.6% from May 2007.

* From January 1 through June 29, 2007, NYSE Arca Options achieved a 62% increase in its share of trading in the SEC penny pilot issues. Average daily volume in the penny pilot issues has increased 106% to 227 thousand contracts per day in June, up from 110 thousand contracts per day in January 2007.

* In June, NYSE Arca Options began trading index options for the first time with nearly 13,500 contracts traded.


Source: Business Wire

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