Press releases 2002

08 April 2002

MONTHLY MARKET REPORT FOR MARCH 2002

• NUMBER OF UK TRADES UP 6% ON MARCH 2001
• AVERAGE DAILY TRADING UP 7% ON MARCH 2001

The number of UK trades on the London Stock Exchange continued to rise in March, with a 6 per cent increase to 2.9 million trades, compared with 2.7 million trades in the same month in 2001. There were 20 trading days in March 2002, compared with 22 in March 2001.

• The average number of daily trades in UK and international shares rose by 7 per cent from 193,536 in March 2001 to 207,476 in March 2002.
• 53.9 billion UK shares were traded in March, up from 51.7 billion in March 2001. This represented an increase of 4 per cent year on year.

The number of trades on SETS^TM, the Exchange's electronic order book, rose to 1.5 million in March compared with 1.1 million in March 2001. Year on year, this represented a 36 per cent increase.

There were 21 new issues during March 2002, 9 of which were IPOs. The IPOs were split between AIM (3) and the main market (6), raising 1.1 billion between them.

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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

MONTHLY FACTSHEET FIGURES

March 2002