In April the number of trades came in at 4.6 million, up 31% from the same month in 2011…
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- The number of ETF trades in April was up 34.5% on March
- In April trading in BME’s Derivatives market reached 4.25 million contracts, up 16.7% from April 2011
- Corporate Debt trading was down 76.8% although the number of trades was 3 times higher than that in April 2011
Equities
The equity trading volume on the Spanish Stock Exchange in April was €65.75 billion, up 7.25% from the previous month but 19% down on the same period last year. The trading volume for the first four months totaled €242.70 billion, down 26% from the same period in 2011.
The number of trades in April came in at 4.6 million, up 15% from March 2012 and 31% higher than a year earlier. The number of trades to the end of April totaled 15.86 million, down 3.5% from the same period last year.
As for the ETF segment, the trading volume to April came in at €602 million, down 51% from the same period last year. In April the trading volume came in at €148 million, up 20% from the previous month and 8% down from April last year. The number of trades in ETFs to April totaled 14,102, down 14% from the same period in 2011. The number of trades in April reached 5,047, a 34.5% increase from the previous month and 98% higher than in April 2011.
Futures and options
In April trading on BME’s Derivatives Market came in at 4.25 million contracts, up 16.7% from the same period last year. In April there was a pick up in trading in products linked to indices. Trading in index Futures increased by 39.8% year on year, at 831,252 contracts, while trading in Options on Indices grew by 109% to 281,888 contracts.
Trading in Options on Stocks reached 1.66 million contracts in April up 23% from April 2011.
Warrants and Certificates
The volume of warrants and certificates admitted to trading in 2012 totaled 2,450, up 13% from the same period last year.
Trading on the Warrants and Certificates market to April reached €302 million, down 46% from the same period in 2011. The trading volume on this market in April came in at €52 million, down 34% from the previous month and 47% lower than in the same period in 2011.
The number of trades to the end of April in this market totaled 76,431, down 27% year on year. The number of trades in April reached 16,412, down 20% from the previous month and 8.5% lower than in April 2011.
Corporate Debt
In April trading on BME’s Corporate Debt market reached €79.65 billion, down 76.8% from the same period last year although the number of trades was 180,490, more than three times higher than that for April 2011 (+262.8%).
New issues in April reached €19.07 billion, down 28.7% from April 2011. New issues for the first four months of the year totaled 146,473, up 50% year on year. The outstanding balance at the end of April, at €894.06 billion, was up 4.1% year on year.
Source: ETFWorld – BME
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