OREANDA-NEWS. In November 2015, the international derivatives markets of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 7.6 million contracts (November 2014: 7.4 million). Of those, 5.3 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (November 2014: 5.3 million), and 2.3 million contracts (November 2014: 2.1 million) were traded at the New York based International Securities Exchange (ISE). The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 333.0 terawatt hours. Eurex Repo recorded in all markets in November 2015 an average outstanding volume of 148.8 billion euros.

Eurex Exchange

At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 52.6 million contracts (November 2014: 53.8 million). The single largest contract was the future on the EURO STOXX 50® Index with 22.5 million contracts; and the options on this blue chip index totaled 19.1 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 1.9 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 2.7 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product recorded 1.8 million contracts.

The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached almost 17.7 million contracts (November 2014: 22.3 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 13.6 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 4.1 million contracts.

The interest rate derivatives segment totaled 39.9 million contracts (November 2014: 29.0 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 13.3 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 9.0 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 5.9 million contracts. The three Euro-BTP-Futures totaled around 2.4 million contracts. The two Euro-OAT-Futures recorded around 1.7 million contracts.

The Eurex Exchange segment dividend-based derivatives recorded around 634,000 contracts. Volatility derivatives totaled 1.0 million contracts.

European Energy Exchange

The monthly volume on EEX's power derivatives market amounted to 281.8 terawatt hours (TWh) in November 2015, which is a new monthly record and an increase of 59 percent compared to November 2014 (177.3 TWh). The total volume on the power spot and derivatives markets of EEX Group amounted to 333.0 TWh. This volume also includes the EPEX SPOT markets (incl. APX-Belpex) which have been fully consolidated into EEX as of the beginning of 2015.

On the natural gas spot and derivatives markets, the volume amounted to 131.1 TWh (November 2014: 57.0 TWh). In November, a volume of 70.4 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the spot and derivatives market for CO2 emission allowances (November 2014: 40.4 million tonnes of CO2). In addition, 3,862 contracts were traded in EEX's agricultural products. In freight, 42,000 contracts were traded in November (November 2014: 27,002 contracts) and 20.6 million tonnes were traded in iron ore (November 2014: 15.5 million tonnes).

Eurex Repo

Eurex Repo, which operates GC Pooling and Euro Repo markets, recorded in all markets in November 2015 an average outstanding volume of 148.8 billion euros (November 2014: 201.2 billion euros). This negative development was mainly due to the QE policy of the European Central Bank. The secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding volume of 121.5 billion euros (November 2014: 163.0 billion euros). The Euro Repo market reached an average outstanding volume of 27.3 billion euros compared with 38.2 billion euros in November 2014.