OREANDA-NEWS. Eurex: In July 2015, the international derivatives markets of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 8.5 million contracts (July 2014: 6.3 million). Of those, 5.9 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (July 2014: 4.2 million), and 2.6 million contracts (July 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 209.9 terawatt hours (TWh) in July 2015 (July 2014: 179.4 TWh). Eurex Repo recorded in all markets in July 2015 an average outstanding volume of 158.2 billion euros.

Eurex Exchange

At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 71.6 million contracts (July 2014: 48.7 million). The single largest contract was the future on the EURO STOXX 50 Index with 25.0 million contracts; and the options on this blue chip index totaled 33.7 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 2.2 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 3.7 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product recorded 2.1 million contracts.

The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached 22.8 million contracts (July 2014: 17.4 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 15.1 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 7.7 million contracts.

The interest rate derivatives segment totaled 38.2 million contracts (July 2014: 29.5 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 12.6 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 9.3 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 4.5 million contracts. The three Euro-BTP-Futures totaled around 2.0 million contracts. The two Euro-OAT-Futures recorded around 1.5 million contracts.

The Eurex Exchange segment dividend-based derivatives recorded 763,000 contracts. Volatility derivatives totaled 1.4 million contracts, an increase of 120 percent y-o-y.

European Energy Exchange

The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of EEX amounted to 209.9 terawatt hours (TWh) in July 2015 (July 2014: 179.4 TWh). On the natural gas spot and derivatives markets, the volume amounted to 73.0 TWh (July 2014: 46.5 TWh). In July, a volume of 64.9 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the spot and derivatives market for CO2 emission allowances (July 2014: 39.8 million tonnes of CO2). 8,177 contracts were traded in EEX agricultural products. In freight, 38,492 contracts were traded in July (July 2014: 21,562 contracts) and 23.1 million tonnes were traded in iron ore (July 2014: 10.4 million tonnes).

Eurex Repo

Eurex Repo, which operates Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded in all markets in July 2015 an average outstanding volume of 158.2 billion euros (July 2014: 206.1 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 129.4 billion euros (July 2014: 164.5 billion euros). The Euro Repo market reached an average outstanding volume of 28.8 billion euros compared with 41.6 billion euros in July 2014.