Strong inflow of new companies to OMX Nordic Exchange

The strong inflow of new companies to OMX Nordic Exchange continued in November, with three new companies on the main market and seven new companies on the alternative market First North. So far this year, the Nordic Exchange has welcomed 42 new companies to the main market and 38 companies to First North, as compared to 28 new companies to the main market and 10 new companies to First North during the same period 2005.

In November, share trading volumes reached an average daily turnover of EUR 4.3 billion, an increase by 30% as compared to the same month last year. The average number of trades per day reached 141,362 trades, an increase by 55% as compared to the same month last year.

Industrials most traded sector
Companies in the Large Cap segment had a total turnover of EUR 86.8 billion. The most traded sector in November was Industrials (most traded in October was Information Technology), with a turnover of EUR 24.2 billion.

Trading in November
The value of average daily share trading amounted to EUR 4.3 billion, as compared to EUR 4.0 billion during the past 12-month period. The average number of trades per business day amounted to 141,362, as compared to 120,430 during the past 12-month period. The average daily trading volume in Swedish, Finnish and Danish equity and fixed-income derivative products amounted to 469,062 contracts, as compared to 556,881 contracts during the past 12-month period.

All statistics are also available at www.omxgroup.com/nordicexchange/Themarket/Statisticsanalysis