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Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 4 November 2015 – Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for October 2015.

  • The October 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €7,735 million (-5% compared with October 2014), thus marking a return to a normalised volume environment. As a reminder, activity in October 2014 was the highest level since August 2011, boosted at that time by volatile market conditions.  Activity on ETFs remained particularly dynamic during October 2015 with an average daily transaction value at €597 million, up +16% compared to the activity peak of October 2014.
  • The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was down at 201,379 contracts (-39% compared with October 2014), and the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives was down at 233,314 contracts (-20% compared with October 2014). As a reminder the derivatives’ activity of October 2014 was exceptionally high due to volatile market conditions. The open interest on individual equity derivatives increased by +9.3% compared to the previous month thus exceeding 14 million contracts at the end of October 2015.
  • In October 2015, the average daily volume on commodities derivatives decreased by -14% when compared to October 2014, with an average daily volume of 57,163 contracts. The October price range for milling wheat remained stable and the change of the expiry cycle implemented in September continued to impact volume seasonality on this contract. On 6 October 2015, a new record trading day in the Rapeseed grains Futures contract was established at 21,140 contracts.  This record surpasses the previous one of 20,881 lots in October 2013.
  • In October 2015, Euronext had five new listings (AroundTown Property Holding on Euronext Paris and Intertrust NV on Euronext Amsterdam), of which three EnterNext SMEs (Showroomprivé, Technofirst and KKO International) that altogether raised €719 million. In addition, during October 2015, €2.8 billion was raised in corporate bonds and €2.8 billion of follow-on equity.

Please see tables for the month of October attached

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Euronext is the leading European capital market infrastructure, covering the entire capital markets value chain, from listing, trading, clearing, settlement and custody, to solutions for issuers and investors. Euronext runs MTS, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets, and Nord Pool, the European power market. Euronext also provides clearing and settlement services through Euronext Clearing and its Euronext Securities CSDs in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal.
As of September 2025, Euronext’s regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal host over 1,700 listed issuers with €6.5 trillion in market capitalisation, a strong blue-chip franchise and the largest global centre for debt and fund listings. With a diverse domestic and international client base, Euronext handles 25% of European lit equity trading. Its products include equities, FX, ETFs, bonds, derivatives, commodities and indices.
In November 2025, Euronext successfully acquired a majority stake in the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX), further expanding its footprint and strengthening its pan-European market infrastructure.

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