New figures show that the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group have suffered a dip in their average daily volume of contracts traded compared to the same period last year.
Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.2m contracts traded in January 2012, a 21% drop from the 10.4m daily average in January 2011.
Of this, 5.5m daily trades were Eurex exchange contracts and 2.7m were at the US-based International Securities Exchange (ISE).
On Eurex Exchange the volume of the equity derivatives segment, consisting of equity options and single...