Matched Trading On All NASDAQ OMX Exchanges in February Rose by
Thirty Five Percent Over Year Ago
The NASDAQ Stock Market's Matched Market Share of U.S. Equity
Volume Surpassed All Other U.S. Exchanges for the Twenty Third
Straight Month
NEW YORK, March 24, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.(sm) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. and Nordic exchanges for the month of February 2009.
Business Highlights
-- The average daily number of matched trades executed on all
NASDAQ OMX exchanges during February 2009 increased 35% over
the same month last year.
- The average daily value traded on NASDAQ OMX exchanges
increased 3% over the previous month.
-- The NASDAQ Stock Market's (NASDAQ(r)) matched share of U.S.
equity volume in February 2009 was 25.7%, more than any other
U.S. exchange for the twenty-third consecutive month.
- The average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities last
month increased 10% over January 2009.
- The average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities was
13.2 million, an increase of 9% over January 2009.
-- NASDAQ's average daily matched trade count in NYSE-listed
securities last month was 6.7 million, a 55% increase over
February 2008.
- The average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks
increased 8% over January 2009 and 50% over the same period
one year ago.
- NASDAQ's total matched volume in NYSE-listed securities
during February 2009 was 22.5 billion shares, compared with
21.9 billion shares in January 2009.
-- The average daily matched trade count in NASDAQ-listed
securities last month was 3.8 million, an 8% gain over
January 2009.
- The average daily value of matched trading in
NASDAQ-listed securities was $17 billion during February
2009, a 5% increase over the previous month.
- NASDAQ's average daily matched share volume in
NASDAQ-listed securities during February was 902 million
shares, a 10% increase over January 2009.
-- NASDAQ's average daily trade count in U.S. ETFs last month
was 2.7 million, a 185% increase over February 2008 and a
20% gain over the previous month.
- Average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in February
was more than any other U.S. exchange, increasing 89% over
the same period one year ago.
Equities Trading
The average daily number of matched trades executed on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled 13.4 million in February 2009, a 35% increase over February 2008 and a 9% increase over the previous month. The average daily value traded on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled US$72.4 billion (EUR56.5 billion) in February 2009, a 3% increase from January 2009.
NASDAQ's matched share of U.S. equity volume during February 2009 was more than any other U.S. exchange for the twenty-third consecutive month at 25.7%. NASDAQ's average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities was 2.8 billion shares in February 2009, a 10% increase over January 2009. NASDAQ's total matched volume in U.S. equities in February was 53.5 billion shares. The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities in February 2009 was 13.2 million, an increase of 9% over the previous month.
NASDAQ's average daily matched trade count in NYSE-listed securities last month was 6.7 million, a 7% increase over January 2009. NASDAQ's average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 1.2 billion shares in February, an 8% increase over the previous month and a 50% gain compared with the same period last year. NASDAQ's total matched volume in NYSE-listed securities in February 2009 was 22.5 billion shares compared with 21.9 billion the previous month. NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last month was 19.0%.
The average daily matched trade count in NASDAQ-listed securities last month was 3.8 million, an 8% gain over January 2009. The average daily value of matched trading in NASDAQ-listed securities was $17 billion during February 2009, a 5% increase over the previous month. The average daily matched share volume in NASDAQ-listed securities in February was 902 million shares, a 10% increase over the previous month.
NASDAQ OMX BX's average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities was 12 million shares in February 2009, a 329% increase over January 2009. NASDAQ OMX BX's total matched volume in U.S. equities in February was 222 million shares. NASDAQ OMX BX is a new trading platform that provides a second quote for U.S. cash equities.
During February, 16% of NASDAQ's matched volume resulted from non-displayed orders, adding 8.6 billion shares of dark liquidity to the NASDAQ book.
On all the Nordic and Baltic Markets, the average daily number of trades was 211.3 thousand during February 2009. The average daily value traded was $2.9 billion (EUR2.3 billion).
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Trading
NASDAQ's average daily trade count in U.S. ETFs last month was 2.7 million, a 185% increase over February 2008 and a 20% gain over the previous month. NASDAQ's average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in February 2009 was 768 million shares, more than any other U.S. exchange, a gain of 89% over the same period last year.
Derivatives Trading
The average daily matched volume of NASDAQ OMX exchanges in U.S. equity options totaled 2.5 million contracts in February 2009. NASDAQ OMX exchanges' matched market share of U.S. equities options was 19.8% last month, compared with 14.8% in February 2008.
The average daily volume in all equity and fixed-income derivative products traded on the Nordic Exchanges totaled 333.7 thousand contracts in February 2009. The average daily trading volume in share products, index products and fixed income products changed -16%, 1%, and -59%, respectively, compared with February 2008.
An additional 140.2 thousand Nordic equity derivative contracts traded on the EDX derivatives exchange on an average daily basis during February 2009, a 12% decrease from 159.4 thousand contracts in February 2008.
Bond Trading
The average daily value traded in fixed income securities on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic region during February 2009 totaled US$71 million (EUR56 million).
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Monthly Volume and Market Share Report is available at http://media.globenewswire.com/cache/6948/file/6715.pdf
To download NASDAQ OMX market share statistics, visit http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/marketstatistics/marketshare/useq.xls.
For information about these and other NASDAQ performance statistics, visit www.nasdaqtrader.com/marketshare.
For more detailed statistics on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic region, including national figures, visit http://www.omxnordicexchange.com/newsandstatistics/statisticsanalysis/
About the NASDAQ OMX Group
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,800 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.
Matched Market Share
Data represent share volume of NASDAQ-listed, NYSE-listed or U.S. equity securities (including ETFs) that are executed on the NASDAQ book as a percentage of consolidated market volume. Data are single counted.
Reported Market Share
Data represent share volume reported to the consolidated tape using NASDAQ-operated systems, which includes total share volume of NASDAQ-listed, NYSE-listed, or U.S. equity securities, including ETFs, executed on the NASDAQ book plus internalized volume and other trade reporting to The FINRA/NASDAQ Trade Reporting Facility(tm), a facility of FINRA that is operated by NASDAQ, as a percentage of consolidated market volume. Shares routed to other market centers for execution are not included. Data are single counted. Trades reported to the FINRA/NASDAQ TRF do not reflect liquidity available on the NASDAQ book.
Handled Market Share
Data represent share volume reported to the consolidated tape using NASDAQ-operated systems, which includes total share volume of NASDAQ-listed, NYSE-listed, or U.S. equity securities including ETFs that are executed on the NASDAQ book plus internalized volume and other trade reporting to The FINRA/NASDAQ TRF as a percentage of total consolidated NASDAQ market volume plus shares routed to other market centers for execution. Data are single counted. Trades reported to the FINRA/NASDAQ TRF and shares routed to other market centers for execution do not reflect liquidity available on the NASDAQ book.
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