Cash transactions up 14.1% year-on-year

Busiest November ever
9 IPOs on Euronext’s markets in November, 61 since the beginning of 2005

Derivatives volumes up 16% year-on-year
Short Term Interest Rate Products up 24% year-on-year

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Paris, 1 December 2005

Cash products

14.7 million transactions were completed on Euronext’s cash markets in November 2005, up 14.1% on the same month last year, making it the busiest November ever. More than 148 million cash transactions were registered since the beginning of 2005, up 14.4% on the same period last year, representing a record level at this time of the year and a daily average of 628,000.

Shares

14.1 million transactions were registered in shares in November 2005, up 14.9% on the same month in 2004. A total of 142 million transactions were completed in the year-to-date, up 15.1% on 2004. This represents an average of 601,000 share transactions completed each day.

Initial Public Offerings

After 9 IPOs in October, there have been a further 9 IPOs on all Euronext markets in November 2005, including 2 in Amsterdam and 2 in Brussels, bringing the total number of new listings so far this year to 61, a record level since 2001. Those 61 IPOs represent an additional market capitalization of EUR 100 billion, with a total amount of EUR 16 billion offered.

NextTrack

Transactions on NextTrack amounted to 33,000 during November 2005, up 55.3% year-on-year. 303,000 transactions were completed on NextTrack since the beginning of the year, up 21.3% on 2004. There have been 14 products launched in November on NextTrack among a total of 33 new products since the beginning of the year.

Derivatives products

Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, traded 58 million futures and options contracts in November, up 16% year-on-year. 564 million futures and options contracts have been traded in 2005, up 6% on the same period in 2004. Average daily volume for the year-to-date is 2.4 million contracts.

Euronext.liffe traded 34 million Short Term Interest Rate (STIR) contracts in November, up 24% on 2004 and up 10% for the year-to-date.

Equity products traded 21 million futures and options contracts in November, up 6% year-on-year with Equity Index products trading over 8 million contracts and Individual Equity products trading 12.7 million contracts.

Commodity products traded 618,000 futures and options in November. In the year-to-date volumes are 7.8 million, up 6% on 2004.