Earnings Release • Sep 4, 2009
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Unseasonally Strong August Trading Volumes Drive Year-over-Year Increases Across All Venues
September 4, 2009 – NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced trading volumes for its global cash equities and derivatives exchanges for August 20091 . Trading volumes in August generally rebounded from July levels resulting in year-over-year increases across all trading venues with European cash and derivatives volume up 5.3% and 15.9%, respectively, and U.S. cash and derivatives volume up 6.4% and 66.9%, respectively.
1 Euronext equities transactions count each buy and sell order as separate transactions, NYSE Group equities transactions count buy and sell orders together as a single transaction. All NYSE Euronext derivatives transactions count buy and sell orders together as a single transaction. Prior year period does not include the former Amex equities and options businesses.
NYSE Group U.S. cash products handled ADV in August 2009 increased 6.4% to 2.9 billion shares, compared to August 2008 and increased 3.9% from July 2009. Year-todate, NYSE Group handled ADV of 3.6 billion shares was 11.3% above the same period last year. NYSE Group matched share of all U.S. equity volume in August 2009 was 27.3%, compared to matched market share of 21.1% for our next largest competitor. Consolidated Tape A and Tape B trading volume in August accounted for approximately 77% of all Consolidated Tape trading in the U.S. market which includes trade reporting facility ("TRF") volumes.
NYSE-listed (Tape A)
NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex-listed (Tape B)
• NYSE Group matched exchange-traded products ADV (included in volumes from Tape B and Tape C noted above) was flat in August 2009 compared to the prior year period at 332 million shares. Year-to-date, matched exchange-traded products ADV was 44.1% above the prior year period.
NYSE Euronext European cash products ADV of 1.3 million transactions in August 2009 increased 5.3%, compared to August 2008 and increased 10.1% compared to July 2009. Year-to-date, European cash products ADV of 1.4 million transactions was 7.8% below the same period last year.
NYSE Euronext European derivatives products ADV in August 2009 was 3.5 million futures and options contracts, an increase of 15.9% from August 2008, but down 1.7% from the 3.6 million contracts recorded in July 2009. The 3.5 million in futures and options contracts ADV in August 2009 consisted of 2.8 million contracts executed through our full-service LIFFE CONNECT trading platform and a total of 0.6 million, or 18.4%, of the contracts executed through Bclear, NYSE Liffe's trade administration and clearing service for OTC products. Year-to-date European derivatives products ADV of 4.1 million contracts was 1.1% below prior year levels.
NYSE Euronext's U.S. equity options (NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex) ADV in August 2009 increased 66.9% to 2.3 million contracts compared to August 2008, but decreased 5.8% compared to July 2009. Total U.S. consolidated options ADV increased 10.5% to 12.7 million contracts in August 2009, and decreased 2.1% from July 2009. Year-to-date, U.S. equity options volume of 2.4 million contracts was 42.2% above the prior year period. NYSE Euronext's U.S. options exchanges accounted for 18.2% of the total consolidated equity options trading in August 2009, up from 12.0% in August 2008, but down from the 18.8% in July 2009.
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NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With more than 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext's equities markets -- the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext, NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex -- represent nearly 40 percent of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: www.nyx.com
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning NYSE Euronext's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements are based on NYSE Euronext's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause NYSE Euronext's results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: NYSE Euronext's ability to implement its strategic initiatives, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations, government and industry regulation, interest rate risk and U.S. and global competition, and other factors detailed in NYSE Euronext's reference document for 2008 ("document de référence") filed with the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Registered on April 28, 2009 under No. R. 09-031), 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers. In addition, these statements are based on a number of assumptions that are subject to change. Accordingly, actual results may be materially higher or lower than those projected. The inclusion of such projections herein should not be regarded as a representation by NYSE Euronext that the projections will prove to be correct. This press release speaks only as of this date. NYSE Euronext disclaims any duty to update the information herein.
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