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Trade and Exchange
NASDAQ OMX Announces April 2008 Market Performance Statistics for U.S. and Nordic Exchanges
Equity Trading Increased On The NASDAQ Stock Market and Nordic Markets
The NASDAQ Stock Market's Matched Share Volume in NYSE-Listed Stocks
Increased Significantly From Year Ago Period
NEW YORK - The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. and Nordic exchanges for the month of April 2008.
Business Highlights
* The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in U.S.
equities increased 53% from last year. On the NASDAQ OMX Nordic and
Baltic Markets, average daily equity trade counts rose 17.5% from
April 2007.
* For the thirteenth consecutive month, the NASDAQ Stock Market had
the largest matched market share of U.S.-listed equities at 29.2%.
* The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume in
NYSE-listed stocks increased 92.4% from April 2007.
* ETF average daily share volume matched on The NASDAQ Stock Market
increased 119.4% from one year ago.
* The average daily value of bond trading on NASDAQ OMX Nordic
markets gained 270% from April 2007.
Equities Trading
The average daily value traded on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled USD 85.2
billion (EUR 54.1 billion) in April 2008 as compared with USD 60.1
billion (EUR 44.6 billion) in April 2007, representing an increase of
41.7% (21.3%). The average daily number of trades executed on NASDAQ
OMX exchanges totaled 9.3 million in April 2008, representing a 52.2%
increase from the same month last year.
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched volume in all U.S.
securities was 2.0 billion shares in April 2008, an increase of 27%
from April 2007. The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade
count in U.S. equities increased 53% from last year.
Average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 829 million
shares in April 2008, representing a 92.4% increase compared with the
same period last year. Average daily matched volume in NASDAQ-listed
securities was 839 million shares.
The NASDAQ Stock Market's matched share of U.S. equity volume in April
2008 was more than any other U.S. exchange for the thirteenth
consecutive month at 29.2%, compared with 28.7% during the same period
last year. NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last
month was 21.3%, up from 16.1% in April 2007.
On all the Nordic and Baltic Markets, the average daily number of
trades was 201.7 thousand in April 2008, an increase of 17.5% from
March 2007. In April 2008, average daily value traded was USD 6.7
billion (EUR 4.2 billion).
Derivatives Trading
The average daily volume in all equity and fixed-income derivative
products traded on the Nordic Exchanges totaled 412.8 thousand
contracts in April 2008. The average daily trading volume in share
products, index products and fixed income products changed -27%, 14%,
and 15%, respectively, compared with April 2007.
An additional 156.9 thousand Nordic equity derivative contracts traded
on EDX on an average daily basis during April 2008, up 19.9% from 130.9
thousand in April 2007.
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Trading
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume of U.S.
ETFs in April 2008 was 335.4 million shares, more than any other U.S.
exchange, representing a gain of 119.4% from the same period last year.
Matched market share in U.S. ETFs last month was 37.1%, a 2.3
percentage point increase from the same period one year ago.
The average daily value traded in ETFs on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the
Nordic region last month totaled EUR 207 million, representing an
increase of 21.0% from April 2007.
Bond Trading
The average daily value traded in fixed income securities on NASDAQ OMX
exchanges in the Nordic region in March 2008 amounted to EUR 151
million, compared with EUR 41 million during the same month last year
-- an increase of 270% from April 2007.
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