Press releases 2002

12 February 2002

 

MONTHLY MARKET REPORT FOR JANUARY 2002

 

• 53.6 BILLION UK SHARES TRADED IN POSITIVE START TO 2002
• TOTAL TRADING VOLUMES UP 7% ON JANUARY 2001

Trading volumes across the London Stock Exchange's markets continued to grow in January, with a 7 per cent increase in total trading volumes, compared with the same month in 2001.

 

• The number of average daily trades in UK and international shares rose by 7 per cent from 184,670 in January 2001 to 196,766 in January 2002.
• 53.6 billion UK shares were traded in January, up from 53.2 billion in January 2001.
• The number of trades in international shares was up 17 per cent on the same month in 2001, rising from 1.28 million trades to 1.5 million.

The number of trades on SETS^TM, the Exchange's electronic order book, rose to 1.57 million in January compared with 1 million in January 2001. Year on year this represented a 57 per cent increase.

 

Trading in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) has continued to increase, reaching 3,431 trades in January 2002. The previous high was 3,059 in November 2001. There are 14 ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange, which has risen from 3 ETFs in January 2001.

 

There were 21 new issues during January 2002, 6 of which were IPOs. The 6 IPOs were split between AIM (3) and the main market (3), raising 69 million between them. The total capital raised by new companies in January was 108 million. In the same month in 2001, there were 22 new issues raising 82 million.

 

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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

 

MONTHLY FACTSHEET FIGURES

 

January 2002

 

	2002		2001
DOMESTIC EQUITY TRADING	Month	Year to date	Month	Year to date
Equity Trading Value (m)	152,807	152,807	198,090	198,090
Number of Equity Trades	2,832,929	2,832,929	2,779,240	2,779,240
INTERNATIONAL EQUITY TRADING
Equity Trading Value (m)	261,400	261,400	368,891	368,891
Number of Equity Trades	1,495,915	1,495,915	1,283,493	1,283,493
	January 2002		January 2001
DOMESTIC MARKET CAPITALISATION bn	1,521		1,812
TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPANIES	2,881		2,927
UK list	1,799		1,891
Foreign	448		500
AIM	634		536
techMARK	240		246
	2001		2000
MONEY RAISED m	Month	Year to date	Month	Year to date
UK & AIM New Issues Equity	71	71	82	82
Further, Rights and Other	363	363	314	314
Bonds and Warrants	4,668	4,668	1,363	1,363
Int. New Issues Equity	-	-	-	-
Further, Rights and Other	40	40	27	27
Bonds and Warrants	5,301	5,301	3,757	3,757
COMPANIES ADMITTED IN MONTH	21	21	22	22

INDICES PERFORMANCE	Month Close	Mvt in Month	Mvt in Year
FTSE100	5,164.8	-1%	-1%
FTSE All Share	2,496.0	-1%	-1%
FTSE techMARK 100	1,347.1	-9%	-9%
FTSE AIM	868.3	-2%	-3%