Time for the Spanish Stock Market Bolsa de Madrid (BME) to release its November trading volume report. The highlights include:
- In the first eleven months of the year trading volume totaled €603.7 billion
- The number of equity trades to November totaled 47.6 million
- The trading volume in Financial Derivatives in the first eleven months of the year was 38.7 million contracts
- New admissions on MARF in November were up 13.4% on the year
Equities
The trading volume in November in the Spanish Stock Market came in at €46 billion, a similar figure to last year’s (€46.4 billion). The trading volume for the first eleven months of the year totaled €603.7 billion, in line with the same period in 2016 (€603.9 billion).
The number of equity trades on the Spanish Stock Market in November reached 4.2 million, bringing the accumulated figure for the first eleven months of the year to 47.6 million.
As for the ETF segment, the trading volume in November came in at €451.9 million while it totaled €4.1 billion for the eleven months to November, down 26.4% year-on-year.
The number of issues of Warrants and Certificates admitted to the market in the first eleven months of the year totaled €434.4 million, of which 38.5 million correspond to the trading volume recorded in November, representing decreases of 34.6% for both periods. The number of issues of Warrants and Certificates to the end of November reached 5,189.
Futures and Options
The trading volume in the Derivatives market to the end of November was 38.7 million contracts, a repeat of the volume figures posted last year.
The trading volume in IBEX 35 Futures in November was 578,217 contracts, down 0.3% from the same month a year earlier. The value of trading in IBEX 35 Mini Futures came in at 159,756 contracts (-15.9%). The trading volume in IBEX 35 Options in November came in at 407,702 contracts while to the end of November it totaled 3.7 million contracts, up 40.6% and 32.4% year-on-year respectively.
Stock Futures posted a trading volume of 9.3 million contracts to the end of November, up 16.9% on the year while it came in at 18.2 million contracts for Stock Options.
The Open Interest at the end of November increased 14.2% for IBEX 35 Futures, 46.1% for Mini IBEX 35 Futures and 83.2% for IBEX 35 Options, from a year ago.
Fixed Income
In November Public Debt trading volume on SENAF – BME’s electronic wholesale Public Debt platform – was €12.6 billion, up 5% from the preceding month. The figure for the first eleven months of the year reached €130.5 billion (-18.7%)
New issues admitted to trading on the Private Debt market in November reached €5.6 billion while total trading volume for the first eleven months totaled €103.6 billion (-8.1%). Public Debt issues in November were €20.3 billion, up 25.2% from the same period in 2016 while in the first eleven months they totaled €217.3 billion (+3.3%).
New admissions on MARF in November came in at €322 million, up 13.4% year-on-year. The outstanding balance to the end of November reached €2.4 billion, an increase of 34.7% relative to the same period last year.