On Tuesday,?NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) announced its April trading volumes for its global derivatives, cash equities exchanges and U.S. equity options. Global derivatives average daily volume (?ADV?) hit 7 million contracts, excluding Bclear, in April; this represented a 4% increase as compared to the previous year but a 3% fall from March. ?
NYSE Euronext U.S. equity options (NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex) ADV was 4.3?million contracts in April, a 10.1% increase from the previous April and a 14.6% rise from March. In addition, NYSE Euronext?s U.S. options exchanges represented 28.0% of total U.S. consolidated equity options trading in April, up from 26.4% in April 2012.
Looking at NYSE Euronext European derivatives products, its April ADV was 2.6 million contracts, excluding Bclear, a 5.8% decline as compared to the previous April and a 22.3% fall from March levels.?Including Bclear, NYSE Liffe?s trade administration and clearing service for OTC products, European derivatives? ADV fell 18.2% as compared to April 2012 and decreased 18.0% from March.
On the cash side,?NYSE Euronext European cash products ADV was 1.5 million transactions in April, a 19.8% decline as compared to the previous April but a 7.5% rise from March.?
NYSE Euronext U.S. cash products (NYSE, NYSE Arca and NYSE-MKT) saw ADV of 1.6 billion shares in April, a 9.5% fall as compared to April 2012, but a 2.3 increase from March 2013.?NYSE Euronext?s Tape A matched market share in April was 30.2%, down from April 2012’s 31.3% and March 2013’s 31.1%.?