The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Last week saw the lowest average weekly New York Stock Exchange composite volume in more than a year.
Only about 2.2 billion shares changed hands in New York Stock Exchange composite volume, making Friday the slowest full trading day of the year.
Just over two billion shares changed hands in New York Stock Exchange composite volume Tuesday, less than half the daily average of 4.3 billion shares this year.
Greifeld aims to use that system to push the Philly operations, now the third-largest U.S. options exchange by volume (17% of all trades), into new markets, such as the one for interest rate swaps.
It would also supplant CME Group Inc. as the world's largest futures exchange by contract volume and create a clear leader in the U.S. options market.
At the Shanghai Gold Exchange, trading volume increased 43%, to 5, 014.5 tons, in the first 10 months of 2010, exchange Chairman Shen Xiangrong said, according to Xinhua.
Ninety percent of U.S. Treasury futures volume is now electronic, as is 60% of the exchange's overall volume.
Ertel bets that the new exchange will stimulate more volume, perhaps by attracting buyers who will ultimately turn to Evolution for more-complex, custom trades.
And thanks to the active traders on the Taipei exchange, the daily share volume provides decent liquidity.
Such programs also can help the managers buy more products or services from critical suppliers that provide much-needed volume, in exchange for lower payment terms.
And yet, within CBOT's own pits, trading in ag futures and options still hangs on--one of two such areas--amounting to 16% of the total volume on the exchange.
But today the volume of foreign exchange trading is staggering.
According to TradeTheNews.com, volume on the New York Stock Exchange was more than 9% above its three-month average Tuesday, while Nasdaq volume was up 11%.
What is most striking to me is that something like 30 percent of market volume trades off-exchange.
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He added that he had seen a recent spike in exchange-traded-fund trading volume.
The customers get their money, everybody feels safe, they restore confidence to the futures market, and they get volume going through their exchange again.
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Total trading was the year's highest, with overall volume of New York Stock Exchange stocks exceeding 4.9 billion shares.
Volume on the Hong Kong exchange has been dropping since July.
In 2005, average daily volume at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange soared 34% from a record 2004, and the number of contracts traded for the year surpassed 1 billion.
In 2005, average daily volume at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ) soared 34% from a record 2004, and the number of contracts traded for the year surpassed 1 billion.
The Dow posted its 684-point drop on record volume as four New York Stock Exchange issues declined for every advance.
And judging from the record volume on the New York Mercantile Exchange lately, there's plenty of business for the survivors.
Specifically, about 2.1 million calls traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), compared to put volume of 2.3 million contracts.
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Call volume narrowly edged out puts volume on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on Monday, as traders reacted to an early plunge in equities.
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Option volume remained light on Monday, with total volume on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) dropping to 3.3 million contracts from 3.7 million on Friday.
Composite volume on the New York Stock Exchange was its lowest this year, with 2.59 billion shares changing hands, compared with 2013's daily average of 3.49 billion.
Call volume once again topped put volume on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on Tuesday, with roughly 1.9 million calls and 1.6 million puts crossing the tape.
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As many as 854, 708 shares of Coal India were traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange Monday, compared with its average daily volume of 278, 000 shares over the past two weeks.
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