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> Meanwhile, in a sign of growing investor confidence in Europe, the Euro
> continues its slide....
cant see any relationship of the mucking EURO with the general discussion of
PIT <-> electronic trading
rgds hans
> hans esser wrote:
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> > Eurex Sets Worldwide Trading Record In January
> >
> > 40.2 million contracts traded at Eurex during
> > first month of the year/ Records also posted in
> > Bobl,
> > Shaz and derivatives on Euro STOXX
> >
> > Frankfurt/Main, 01 Feb 2000
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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