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Eurex, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, traded 117 million contracts in September, around 17 percent up on September 2004 (100 million contracts). At 938 million contracts, the turnover volume achieved in the first three quarters of this year has eclipsed the same period last year by around 16 percent (January – September 2004: 804 million contracts). In the third quarter, 299 million contracts were traded on Eurex. On average, 5.3 million contracts were traded daily in September.

With 59.3 million contracts traded in September, the fixed-income derivatives segment put in the highest turnover on Eurex. The most successful product was, once again, the Euro-Bund Future, with 28.2 million contracts. The Euro-Bobl and Euro-Schatz Futures contributed 14 million and 13 million contracts respectively. The new Euro-Buxl Future, which was launched on 9 September, boasted a turnover in excess of 100,000 contracts in the first three weeks.

57.8 million contracts were traded in equity-based derivatives in September, of which 34.9 million were in the equity index derivatives segment and 22.9 million in the equity options segment. The top equity index derivative was the future on the DJ Euro STOXX 50 index with around 15 million contracts, a rise of around 24 percent on the previous year.

Approximately €12.8 billion (single counting) was traded in September on the electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds out Eurex’s range in the Fixed Income product range, a rise of 50 percent year-on-year (September 2004: €8.5 billion).