CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced November volume averaged 13.0 million contracts per day, up 41 percent from November 2006, and second only to August in terms of highest monthly average daily volume during 2007.
At seven, the number of November IPOs was slightly below average for this month. By market, there were three IPOs on JASDAQ, one on JASDAQ/NEO, one on OSE Hercules, one on the Nagoya 2nd section, and one on Nagoya Centrex.
NYSE Euronext reported strong transaction volumes in U.S. and European trading operations for November 2007, highlighted by record activity on Euronext, Liffe and NYSE Arca Options, which is now the third largest options exchange in the U.S.
Zero2IPO Research Center recently released "Zero2IPO-China Enterprises IPO Report Q3 2007." According to the report, 73 Chinese enterprises offered a combined US$21.86B on domestic and overseas markets. Specifically, 33 overseas shares raised US$7.47B. Meanwhile, the Chinese domestic market outstripped its overseas counterpart by attracting 40 enterprises with US$14.39B offered, creating a new quarterly record.
During October 2007, there were 19.1 million electronic order book trades with a combined value of £299.6 billion (€429.7 billion) on the cash markets of Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange – more than on any other European exchange. The average daily number of order book trades increased 46 per cent to 832,156 while the average daily value traded rose 34 per cent to £13.0 billion (€18.7 billion).
CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse exchange, announced October volume averaged 9.5 million contracts per day, up 14 percent from October 2006.
NYSE Euronext reported strong transaction volumes in U.S. and European trading operations for October 2007, highlighted by record activity on Liffe and NYSE Arca Options.
US markets staged a late-session rally to finish higher on Friday, even as troubling news from the financial sector kept stocks in the red for most of the day.
There were 12 IPOs in October, which about the average for this month. However, these 12 issues raised a total of ¥229.5 billion, the most of any month thus far in 2007. There was one TSE 1st section IPO, two on TSE Mothers, five on JASDAQ and four on OSE Hercules.
