During the month of October 2008, almost 90 million electronic order book (EOB) equity trades were done on FESE Members with a value of 1,165 billion EUR. This means a 1% increase compared to the previous month.
The equity market capitalisation of FESE Member exchanges decreased to 6,921 billion EUR.
43 new companies were listed during the month of October in FESE members, 11 of which were listed through an IPO.
EOB ETFs trading volumes were at the end of October 23% higher than the previous month and 105% higher than one year ago. Securitised Derivatives increased by 40% compared to September.
EOB Bond trading value went up to 36 billion EUR last month, an increase of 45% compared to the previous month.
The number of equity derivative contracts traded has increased by 3% compared to September while bonds derivative contracts decreased by 16% in the same period.
Summary of FESE Member Exchanges statistics for October 2008