London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community, offering international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets. In October a total of 32.1 million trades were carried out across the Group’s electronic equity order books with a combined value of £181.2 billion (€208.2 billion), up 13 per cent on October 2010 (£160.9 billion)..…
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UK Equities Order Book
During the month, the average daily value traded on the UK order book was £4.4 billion (€5.1 billion), up one per cent year on year; the average daily number of trades was up 31 per cent to 719,889.
The LSE’s share of trading in the total UK order book for October was 59.7 per cent.
Italian Equities Order book
On the Italian order book, the average daily number of trades was 279,196, up 20 per cent on the same month last year, whilst the average daily value traded on the order book decreased one per cent year on year to €2.7 billion (£2.3 billion).
Turquoise Cash Equities
The average daily value traded on the Turquoise integrated book in October was €2.0 billion (£1.7 billion) up 117 per cent on the same month last year. The average daily number of trades was up 142 per cent, at 500,811.
On the dark mid-point book, Turquoise traded an average daily value of €181 million (£158 million), up 21 per cent on October 2010. There were an average daily total of 29,550 trades, a increase of 33 per cent year on year.
Turquoise share of Pan-European trading for October was 6.0 per cent.
Derivatives
On the Group’s derivatives platforms, the total number of contracts traded was 5,664,585, up three per cent compared with October 2010.
Exchange Traded Products
Total value traded in Exchange Traded Products across the Group’s order books in October was up 10 per cent year on year at £10.4 billion (€11.9 billion). The total number of trades was up 13 per cent at 385,165.
Fixed income
The average daily value traded on the MTS Cash markets during the month was down 20 per cent year on year at €9.2 billion (£8.0 billion). On the MTS Repo market, the average term adjusted daily value was down eight per cent year on year at €236.8 billion (£206.1 billion).
The average daily value traded on the Group’s retail bond markets was €690 million (£600 million), down 21 per cent on the same month last year. The average daily number of trades was up 11 per cent at 16,166.
Source: ETFWorld – London Stock Exchange
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