116 Billion Euros Turnover at Deutsche Börse’s Cash Market in October 15 million trades executed on Xetra/ Total volume of 130 billion euros traded on all stock exchanges in Germany Deutsche Börse: In October, 115.6 billion euros were traded on Xetra® and on the floor at Börse Frankfurt – a decrease of 57 percent year-on-year (October 2008: 270.3 billion euros). Of the 115.6 billion euros, 108.0 billion euros were traded on Xetra, a decrease of 58 percent year-on-year (October 2008: 255.1 billion euros). 7.5 billion euros were traded on the floor. Turnover in German equities amounted to 96 billion euros, while foreign equities turnover stood at 12 billion euros. Xetra and the floor at Börse Frankfurt accounted for 97 percent of the transaction volume in German equities on all stock exchanges in Germany. 93 percent of foreign equities traded on stock exchanges in Germany were traded on Xetra and on the floor in Frankfurt. In October, 15.2 million transactions were executed on Xetra, a decrease of 50 percent against the same period last year (October 2008: 30.2 million). According to the Xetra liquidity measure (XLM), SAP AG was the most liquid DAX® blue chip in October with 6.1 basis points (bp) for an order volume of 100,000 euros. HeidelbergCement AG was the most liquid MDAX® stock with 19.4 bp. The most liquid ETF was the db-x-trackers II EONIA T.R. 1C with 0.3 bp. The most liquid foreign stock was Total S.A. with 16.5 bp. XLM measures liquidity in electronic securities trading on the basis of the implicit transaction costs. It is expressed in basis points (1 bp = 0.01 percent); a low XLM denotes high liquidity in a security. Deutsche Bank AG was the DAX stock with the highest turnover on Xetra in October at 6.9 billion euros. HeidelbergCement AG was the top MDAX stock at 1.9 billion euros, while Deutsche Wohnen Bank AG led the SDAX® stocks at 66.8 million euros and Aixtron AG headed the TecDAX® at 981.8 million euros. At 1.8 billion euros, the iShares DAX was the exchange-traded fund with the highest turnover. On all stock exchanges in Germany 130.1 billion euros were traded in October according to orderbook turnover statistics – a decrease of 56 percent compared year-on-year (October 2008: 293.4 billion euros). This total includes 119.1 billion euros in equities, warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as 10.9 billion euros in fixed-income securities. DAX®, MDAX®, SDAX®, TecDAX®, and Xetra® are registered trademarks of Deutsche Börse AG. Average Daily Volume of 10.4 Million Contracts at Eurex and ISE in October Eurex: At the international derivatives markets of Eurex, an average daily volume of 10.4 million contracts was traded in October 2009; y-o-y the figure was 14.3 million due to the turbulence of the financial crisis. This year’s figure splits into 6.4 million contracts traded at Eurex (Oct 2008: 9.9 million) and 4.0 million contracts were traded at the International Securities Exchange (ISE) (Oct 2008: 4.4 million). In October, a total of 228.8 million contracts were traded on both exchanges, thereof Eurex with 141.6 million and ISE with 87.2 million, compared with 226.6 million contracts at Eurex and 102.0 million at ISE y-o-y. At Eurex, the equity index derivatives segment recorded the highest turnover, totaling 67.4 million contracts (Oct 2008: 140.0 million). Thereof, 27.3 million contracts were traded in the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® index future and 25.7 million contracts in the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50 index option. The DAX® index future and option saw a combined volume of 12.5 million contracts. Trading volume in equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) accounted for 29.9 million contracts compared with 34.1 million in October 2008. The segment dividend futures continued to grow and totaled more than 310,000 contracts. The interest rate derivatives segment reached 44.0 million contracts (Oct 2008: 52.5 million). The Euro Bund Future totaled 17.4 million contracts, the Euro Bobl Future 9.7 million contracts and the Euro Schatz Future 11.1 million contracts. The new Euro BTP future – launched on 14 September – reached already more than 97,000 contracts. Eurex Repo, which operates CHF- and EUR repo markets, recorded an average outstanding volume of €150.0 billion (Oct 2008: €159.1 billion). The secured money market segment GC Pooling continued to grow with a rate of 47 percent y-o-y, average outstanding volume reached €75.4 billion (Oct 2008: €51.2 billion). The whole EUR Repo segment grew by 26 percent and totaled €103.0 billion (Oct 2008: €81.6 billion). The electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds out Eurex’s fixed-income product range, saw a volume of €7.0 billion (single counted) in October, compared with €8.1 billion in October last year and €6.5 billion in September 2009. | 
