NYSE Euronext has announced bullish trading volumes for January, as well as better financial results for 2009.
A strong recovery in interest rate derivative trading at NYSE Liffe in London helped average daily volume in Europe rise to 5.1m contracts, up 32.4% from January 2009 and 26.2% from December.
Of that volume, 2.7m contracts a day were interest rate trades, which reached their highest volume since March 2008, before the financial crisis intensified.
ADV for European rates derivatives was up 37.8% from January 2009 and 50.5% from December.
Equity products, including over the counter transactions cleared on Bclear, are also growing, up 26.9% from a year ago at 2.3m contracts a day, a 6% increase over December.
Growth was even steeper in the US, where NYSE’s two equity options exchanges, NYSE Arca Options and NYSE Amex Options, together emerged as the largest...