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Eurex, the international derivatives market, achieved turnover of 31.2 million contracts traded in July. Over 269 million contracts have already been traded at Eurex during the first seven months of the year, surpassing the previous year's seven-month total by 26 percent.

The Bund future was again the world's most active futures contract, with about 11.3 million contracts traded at Eurex in July. Turnover in the Bobl future came to about 4.2 million contracts traded in July. In the Schatz future, some 2.8 million contracts changed hands, an increase of 29 percent over the previous year's figure for July. There were 125,000 contracts traded in options on the Schatz future, 160 percent more than in July 1999.

In the index derivatives segment, Eurex shows volume of about 4.4 million contracts traded in July. Derivatives on the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index more than 1.2 million contracts traded (670,000 futures and 570,000 options), 122 percent higher than the number of futures and 61 percent higher than the number of options traded in July one year ago. The derivatives launched on the Nemax 50 index are on an extremely favorable trend: volume during the second month of trading was already up to about 45,000 contracts, after some 12,000 contracts traded in June.

In the equity derivatives, options on Noka set a new record with 302,000 contracts traded; this corresponds to a 72 percent increase over the previous month's figure. A total of about 6.55 million equity options were traded in July, roughly 28 percent more than the number traded during the same month of last year.

EUREX Trading Volumes since 1990
(in contracts traded)