Cash transactions: up 30.7% year-on-year, daily average up 52.5%
Derivatives volumes: up 22% year-on-year, daily average up 42%
9 IPOs on Euronext’s markets, EUR 1.6 billion raised

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Paris, 2 May 2006

Cash products

16.6 million transactions were completed on Euronext’s cash markets in April 2006, up 30.7% year-on-year, representing a record daily average of 924.000, which is up 52.5% on April 2005.
In total, more than 74 million cash transactions were registered on Euronext since the beginning of the year. This is up 42.5% compared to the same period in 2005 and makes it the busiest year start ever.

Shares
15.8 million transactions were completed in shares in April 2006, up 31.1% year-on-year and 52.9% on a daily average basis. There have been 70.9 million share transactions over the first four months of the year, up 43.3% on the same period in 2005.

Initial Public Offerings
There have been 9 IPOs on all Euronext markets in April, with EUR 1.6 billion raised. 5 out of those 9 IPOs were on Alternext. This brings the total number of new listings on Euronext’s markets so far this year to 29.

NextTrack & NextWarrants
Year-to-date transactions were up 153% on NextTrack and up 36% on NextWarrants, which includes warrants and certificates.

Derivatives products

Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, traded 60 million futures and options contracts in April 2006, up 22% on the same month last year, representing an average daily volume of 3.3 million up 42% on April 2005. The Exchange traded a total of 242 million contracts in the first four months of 2006, up 25% on the same period in 2005.

Euronext.liffe’s single stock futures (SSFs), which were launched in January 2001, continued to show strong growth, trading 4.5 million contracts in April 2006, up 47% on April 2005. Year-to-date SSFs have traded over 7 million contracts up 58% on the same period last year. On the 13th April SSFs set a new daily record of over one million contracts.

Euronext.liffe’s individual equity products traded 17 million contracts in April 2006, up 21% on April 2005 and up 38% in the year-to-date.

Interest rate products also saw strong trading. In April 35 million contracts were traded, up 31% on April last year. For the year-to-date, volumes were up 22%. Short Sterling options set a new daily record of 476,671 contracts on 25th April and open interest continues to grow to record levels.
 
Notes to Editors:

This press release has been prepared using actual volumes for the month, apart from for the last trading day when an estimate based on the average daily volume for the current month is used. Final detailed figures for the month will be published three working days after the end of the month on the Euronext websites: www.euronext.com and www.liffe.com.

Appendix: Euronext cash and derivatives market tables

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