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Meanwhile, in a sign of growing investor confidence in Europe, the Euro continues its slide....
hans esser wrote:
> Eurex Sets Worldwide Trading Record In January
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> 40.2 million contracts traded at Eurex during first month of the year/ Records also posted in Bobl,
> Shaz and derivatives on Euro STOXX
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> Frankfurt/Main, 01 Feb 2000
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> The derivatives market, Eurex, set several new records again in January: With a volume of 40.2 million
> contracts traded, Eurex beat the previous record of 38.4 million contracts traded in June 1999, setting another
> worldwide standard. The January contract volume is about 70.7 percent higher than the number posted in the
> same month of last year, roughly two and a half times the total volume traded in all of business year 1990, the
> first full year of trading at DTB Deutsche Terminbörse, the German options and financial futures exchange at
> that time.
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> In January, the BUND future was again the world's most heavily traded futures contract. Some 14.5 million
> contracts were traded at Eurex, the second-best performance on a monthly basis (the record was set in June
> 1999 with 16.4 million contracts traded). Year on year, trading in the BUND future grew 65.5 percent. A new
> turnover record was also set in the Bobl future with some 6.3 million contracts traded, topping the 6 million
> contract mark for the first time and surpassing the previous year's volume by 145 percent. Record trading
> volume was also posted in the Shaz future in January with 2.86 million contracts traded, beating the previous
> record of 2.58 million contracts traded in October 1999 and and tripling the number traded in January 1999.
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