OREANDA-NEWS. In June, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 11.0 million contracts (June 2014: 8.0 million). Of those, 8.6 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (June 2014: 6.0 million), and 2.4 million contracts (June 2014: 2.0 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE), part of Eurex Group. In total, 189.8 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 52.7 million at the ISE in June.

In its largest segment – equity index derivatives – Eurex Exchange achieved 92.9 million contracts (June 2014: 56.4 million). The future on the EURO STOXX 50® Index totaled 39.9 million contracts; and options on this index recorded 31.9 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index totaled 3.2 million contracts while the DAX options reached 4.0 million contracts.

The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange recorded 28.7 million contracts (June 2014: 22.7 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 16.6 million contracts and single stock futures equaled another 12.1 million contracts.

Eurex Exchange’s interest rate derivatives segment grew strongly and achieved 65.4 million contracts (June 2014: 45.1 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 22.4 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 16.2 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 8.2 million contracts.

The monthly volume on the Power Derivatives Market of European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 184.0 terawatt hours (TWh) in June 2015 (June 2014: 99.9 TWh). In June, a volume of 54.2 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the Spot and Derivatives Market for CO2 Emission Allowances compared with 33.9 million tonnes of CO2 in June 2014. In June, 9,170 contracts were traded in Agricultural products. On PEGAS, the natural gas platform of EEX Group, a volume of 68.9 TWh was traded in June (June 2014: 48.8 TWh).

Eurex Repo, which operates Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded in all markets in June 2015 an average outstanding volume of 183.2 billion euros (June 2014: 222.5 billion euros). The secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding volume of 148.3 billion euros (June 2014: 180.6 billion euros). Due to the QE policy of the European Central Bank, the Euro Repo market reached an average outstanding volume of 34.9 billion euros (June 2014: 41.9 billion euros).