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 August 2008.
Business Highlights
-- The NASDAQ Stock Market's (NASDAQ) matched share of U.S. equity volume in August 2008 was more than any other U.S. exchange for the seventeenth consecutive month.
- NASDAQ's average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities increased nine percent from August 2007.
-- Average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks increased 21% compared with the same period last year.
- NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last month rose to 22.8% from 19.3% in August 2007.
-- The average daily matched volume of NASDAQ OMX exchanges in U.S. equity options increased 23.0% from August 2007.
- NASDAQ OMX exchanges' matched market share of U.S. equities options in August 2008 increased to 19.0% from 14.3% in August 2007.
-- The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs was more than any other U.S. exchange.
Equities Trading
The average daily value traded on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled USD 85.0 billion (EUR 56.8 billion) in August 2008 as compared with USD 98.5 billion (EUR 72.3 billion) in August 2007. The average daily number of trades executed on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled 10.3 million in August 2008, an increase of eight percent from the same month last year.
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities was 2.1 billion shares in August 2008. NASDAQ's matched share of U.S. equity volume in August 2008 was more than any other U.S. exchange for the seventeenth consecutive month at 29.1%. The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities was 10.2 million, an increase of nine percent from August 2007.
Average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 980 million shares in August 2008, representing a 21% increase compared with the same period last year. NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last month was 22.8%, up from 19.3% in August 2007.
Average daily matched volume in NASDAQ-listed securities was 748 million shares.
During the month of August, 17.3% of NASDAQ's matched volume resulted from non-displayed orders, adding 7.9 billion shares of dark liquidity to the NASDAQ book.
On all the Nordic and Baltic Markets, the average daily number of trades was 167.3 thousand in August 2008. In August 2008, average daily value traded was USD 4.0 billion (EUR 2.7 billion).
Derivatives Trading
The average daily matched volume of NASDAQ OMX exchanges in U.S. equity options totaled 2.2 million contracts in August 2008, an increase of 23.0% over August 2007. NASDAQ OMX exchanges' matched market share of U.S. equities options was 19.0%, compared with 14.3% during the same period last year.
The average daily volume in all equity and fixed-income derivative products traded on the Nordic Exchanges totaled 319.2 thousand contracts in August 2008. The average daily trading volume in share products, index products and fixed income products changed -36.0%, 3.0%, and -35.0%, respectively, compared with August 2007.
An additional 136.9 thousand Nordic equity derivative contracts traded on the EDX derivatives exchange on an average daily basis during August 2008, a decrease of three percent from 141.2 thousand in August 2007.
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Trading
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in August 2008 was 458 million shares, more than any other U.S. exchange, representing a gain of 20.0% from the same period last year. NASDAQ's matched market share in U.S. ETFs last month was 36.9%, compared with 36.3% in August 2007.
The average daily value traded in ETFs on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic region last month totaled USD 181.2 million (EUR 125 million). -- www.nasdaq.com
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