Press releases 2001

05 October 2001

 

MONTHLY MARKET REPORT - No. 3 (September 2001)

 

• SEPTEMBER TRADING VOLUMES UP 31% YEAR ON YEAR

   

• NEW TRADING RECORD - 21 SEPTEMBER 2001

   

In September, the London Stock Exchange's second busiest month ever, 4.4 million trades were recorded - up 31 per cent on September 2000.

 

Friday 21 September saw a new record high of 235,011 trades in UK equities alone, breaking the previous record high of 202,602 set in April last year. 145,964 trades were executed on SETS - the Exchange's electronic order book - achieving another record, almost 50 per cent higher than the 99,438 trades executed on 15 June this year.

 

In September, more than 1.5 million trades went through SETS, up almost 100 per cent on the same month last year. This brings the SETS totals for the year to 10.7 million trades to a value of 487 billion.

 

extraMARK, the Exchange's market for innovative investment companies and products, also saw record activity in the trading of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in September. Total trading in ETFs reached a value of 657 million - the highest value for ETF trading ever recorded in one month, the previous record being 488 million during June 2001.

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

 

MONTHLY FACTSHEET FIGURES

 

September 2001

 

	2001		2000
DOMESTIC EQUITY TRADING	Month	Year to date	Month	Year to date
Equity Trading Value (m)	157,646	1,445,640	158,319	1,462,651
Number of Equity Trades	2,724,329	23,268,878	2,373,177	22,801,457
INTERNATIONAL EQUITY TRADING
Equity Trading Value (m)	275,123	2,937,122	280,988	2,707,022
Number of Equity Trades	1,626,499	12,502,093	955,099	8,175,306

	September 2001	September 2000
DOMESTIC MARKET CAPITALISATION bn	1,448	1,847
TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPANIES	2,919	2,874
UK list	1,844	1,901
Foreign	469	502
AIM	606	471
techMARK	246	234

	2001		2000
MONEY RAISED m	Month	Year to date	Month	Year to date
UK & AIM New Issues	88	6,245	506	9,611
Further, Rights and Other	187	13,890	1,397	11,600
Bonds and Warrants	3,681	58,992	9,081	74,962
Int. New Issues	-	3,292	46	2,610
Further, Rights and Other	64	1,410	223	1,009
Bonds and Warrants	5,804	65,728	6,742	68,330
COMPANIES ADMITTED IN MONTH	15	237	30	337

INDICES PERFORMANCE	Month Close	Mvt in Month	Mvt in Year
FTSE100	4,903.4	-8%	-21%
FTSE All Share	2,340.5	-10%	-22%
FTSE techMARK 100	1,153.0	-20%	-55%
FTSE AIM	820.5	-20%	-43%

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