Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has announced trading volumes for October 2017.
Cash Trading
In October 2017, the average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €7,172 million, up +13.3% compared to October 2016 and down -1.7% from the previous month.
The average daily transaction value on ETFs was €396 million, down -6.1% compared to October 2016 and down -8.4% from the previous month.
Euronext’s ETF offering increased this month to 831 listings at the end of October 2017 compared to 790 end of 2016.
Derivatives trading
In October 2017, the overall average daily volume on derivatives reached 497,684 contracts, up +8.6% compared to October 2016 and stable (-0.8%) compared to the previous month. In details,
- the average daily volume on equity index derivatives reached 191,769 contracts, down -5.2% compared to October 2016 and -5.2% from the previous month,
- the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives reached 265,006 contracts, up +27.9% compared to October 2016 and +3.3% from the previous month,
- the average daily volume on commodities derivatives reached 40,910 contracts, down -16.1% compared to October 2016 and -4.1% from the previous month.
On a year-to-date basis, at end of October 2017, the overall average daily volume on Euronext derivatives stands at 543,262 contracts (+11.5% compared to end of October 2016) and the open interest was up at 18,302,547 contracts (+15.3% compared to end of October 2016).
FX spot trading
The average daily volume on the spot foreign exchange market of FastMatch, of which Euronext owns 90% of the capital since August 2017, stood at $18,030 million, up +33.0% compared to October 2016 and down -13.6% from the previous month.
Listing
In October 2017, Euronext had four listings on its Paris markets –SMCP, Biom’ Up, Adeunis and Theranexus –that altogether raised €607 million. In addition, €7.1 billion were raised on Euronext in corporate bonds and €3.8 billion of follow-on equity, including Total for €1.1 billion and Air France-KLM for €1.0 billion.