The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. today announced its consolidated market performance statistics for the NASDAQ Market Center, INET and Brut trading platforms for the month of November.
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced today the annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ-100 Index®, effective with the market open on Monday, December 18, 2006.
NYSE Group, Inc. today announced that New York Stock Exchange listed securities have been ranked as having the world’s lowest overall cost of trading according to the second-quarter 2006 Global Trading Cost Analysis report by Elkins/McSherry, a State Street Company providing independent transaction cost analysis.
The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Nov. 27-Dec. 1.
NYSE Group, Inc. reported November 2006 transaction volume in all securities traded by NYSE Group. This report represents the NYSE Group monthly volume release issued on a combined basis for NYSE and NYSE Arca.
Trading on the London Stock Exchange’s order book saw excellent growth during November 2006. The number of SETS trades was up 62 per cent on November 2005 to 7.7 million, while the value traded increased 36 per cent to £141.8 billion. The average daily number of trades on SETS in November increased 62 per cent on last November to 349,199, and the average daily value traded rose 36 per cent to £6.4 billion.
The London Stock Exchange welcomes the announcement in today’s pre-budget report that the Government will scrap stamp duty levied on non-resident ETFs. This is expected to boost London’s ETF market significantly by making it far easier for international ETF providers to issue their products on the London Stock Exchange.
New York Stock Exchange member firms that conduct business with the public reported third-quarter 2006 after-tax profits of $2.64 billion and revenue of $81.76 billion, compared to $1.82 billion in after-tax profits on revenue of $61.13 billion in the third quarter of 2005. Year-to-date revenue was $237.96 billion, versus $163.67 billion in the comparable 2005 period.
The Chicago Board of Trade, one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, today announced that volume for November reached a record 83,596,033 contracts, an increase of 38 percent over November 2005. November’s average daily volume (ADV) also set a new monthly record, with 3,980,763 contracts trading each day, up 38 percent from the same month last year. ADV on the Exchange’s e-cbot® electronic trading platform was 2,937,580 contracts in November, a 50 percent increase compared with November 2005.
The Chicago Board of Trade announced that the Exchange reached its highest daily trading volume in its 158-year history on November 29. Total Exchange volume was 7,791,833 contracts, surpassing the previous all-time record of 6,522,607 contracts set on August 29, 2006.
