OREANDA-NEWS. June 02, 2015. The Spanish stock Exchange traded €84.3 bn. in May, up 17% year on year

The best month of May in 5 years

  • The equity trading volume to the end of May was up 27%
  • In May the ETF trading volume doubled from the same month in 2014
  • The trading volume in the Warrants and Certificates market to the end of May was up 46% year-on-year
  • The trading volume in the Derivatives market in May was up 10% from the previous month
  • Corporate Debt trading in May was €57.7 billion and the volume of issues grows 84% in the first five months

Equities

The equity trading volume on the Spanish Stock Exchange in April was €84.3 billion, up 17% year on year, representing the best month of May since 2010. Accumulated volumes in the first five months of the year reached €433.5 billion, up 27% year on year.

The number of trades in May reached 4.4 million, down 11.9% from the same month a year earlier, while accumulated trades to the end of May reached 27.8 million, down 3.1% year on year.

As for the ETF segment, the trading volume in May came in at €946 million, up 106% from the same month a year earlier. The trading volume in the first five months of 2015 in this segment totalled €5.3 billion, up 33% from a year earlier.

The trading volume on the Warrants and Certificates market in the first five months of 2015 reached €534 million, up 46% year-on-year. The trading volume in May in this market reached €92.7 million, up 7% from April 2014. The number of issues admitted to trading on this market in May was 3,868, up 12% from a year earlier.

Futures and Options

Trading volume in May reached 3.2 million contracts, up 10% year-on-year.

It is worth mentioning the heavy trading in Index Derivatives in May, with 561,583 IBEX 35 Futures contracts traded, up 9.2% year-on-year and 228,733 IBEX Mini Futures, up 10.3%. Trading in IBEX 35 Options was up 16% on the previous month.

The open interest on IBEX 35 Futures in May was 100,835 contracts, up 20.6% year-on-year. As for Stock Derivatives, it is worth mentioning the heavy growth seen in Dividend Futures, of 258% year-on-year. In contrast, trading in Stock Futures and Dividends in the same period was down 26.2% year-on-year.

Trading in Fixed Income continued growing in April, up 260% from a year earlier while in the first four months of the year the figure totaled 3,651 contracts on the Futuro Bono 10, which represents a 156% increase on the previous year.

Corporate Debt

The trading volume on the Corporate Debt market in April was €65.5 billion, down 46.4% from the same month in 2014.  The trading volume recorded in the first four months of the year totaled €224.7 billion, down 55.1% year on year. 

The trading volume on the SEND electronic trading platform in April reached 67 million while it totaled €431 million in the first four months of the year, of which 152 million correspond to Public Debt trading, up 93% year-on-year.