Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for May 2017.
- The May 2017 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €8,471 million, up +42.8% compared to May 2016 and stable (+0.2%) from the previous month. The average daily transaction value on ETFs was €548 million, up +22.5% compared to May 2016 and steady from the previous month. Our ETF offering remained stable this month with 809 listings at the end of May compared to 790 end of 2016.
- The average daily volume on equity index derivatives reached 222,863 contracts in May 2017, up +14.1% compared to May 2016 and down -18.1% from the previous month. The average daily volume on individual equity derivatives reached 260,315 contracts in May 2017, up 39.0% compared to May 2016 and relatively stable (-1.5%) from the previous month.
- In May 2017, the average daily volume on commodities derivatives reached 34,968 contracts, down by -10.1% compared to May 2016 and down -42.7% from the previous month.
- On a year-to-date basis, the overall average daily volume on Euronext derivatives stands at 531,605 contracts (+1.6% compared to end of May 2016) and the open interest was up at 15,151,176 contracts (-3.5% compared to end of May 2016).
- In May 2017, Euronext had two new listings with VolkerWessels in Amsterdam and Prodways Group in Paris that altogether raised €633 million. In addition, €1.6 billion were raised on Euronext in corporate bonds and €2 billion of follow-on equity.
