Strongest six months ever for the Nordic Exchange

Liquidity has increased across all our markets on the Nordic Exchange during the first half-year 2007. Since the peak in year 2000 the daily share trading volumes on the Nordic Exchange have increased 67 per cent. In the first six months new turnover records have been set four times on the Nordic Exchange and 54 companies have also been welcomed to the Nordic Exchange, as compared to 43 for the first six months 2006. The Nordic Exchange now encompasses 834 companies.

Both the value of share trading and number of trades per day on the Nordic Exchange has risen substantially since 2000. See diagram in attached PDF-file.

Trading in June
The value of average daily share trading amounted to EUR 5.4 billion, as compared to EUR 4.7 billion during the past 12-month period. The average number of trades per business day amounted to 186,094, as compared to 149,417 during the past 12-month period. The average daily trading volume in Swedish, Finnish and Danish equity and fixed-income derivative products amounted to 678,157 contracts, as compared to 579,657 contracts during the past 12-month period.

Most traded companies this month
Large Cap Daily turnover, MEUR
Nokia Oyj 733
Ericsson Telefonab LM 387
Nordea Bank AB 177
Mid Cap
Outotec Oyj 21.0
Telelogic AB 13.0
Føroya Banki PF 10.6
Small Cap
Ruuki Group Oyj 8.0
Betsson AB 5.3
Brødrene Johansen A/S 3.6
First North
Morphic Tech. AB 1.7



Most active members this month
Large Cap Market share by turnover
SEB Enskilda AB 6.49%
Morgan Stanley 6.47%
Glitnir AB 5.17%
Mid Cap
SEB Enskilda AB 8.66%
Sv. Handelsbanken AB 6.60%
Carnegie AB 6.23%
Small Cap
Danske Bank A/S 7.22%
Evli Bank Abp 7.03%
Nordnet AB 6.91%
First North
Avanza AB 17.34%




Market development this
month
Index Monthly YTD Monthly change YTD
change
OMXN40 -0.7% +11.8% Industrials -0.9% +25.4%
OMXN Large -1.3% +11.9% Consumer Disc. -4.4% +11.3%
Cap
OMXN Mid Cap -2.0% + 8.7% Consumer -3.1% + 6.2%
Staples
OMXN Small -1.7% + 7.8% Health Care -0.9% + 4.1%
Cap
First North -2.5% - 1.0% Financials -4.2% + 2.9%
EUR
OMXBBPI +5.3% + 7.6% IT +2.8% +16.0%
Energy +2.0% +8.0% Telecom +2.0% - 1.4%
Materials -0.5% + 8.4% Utilities -5.0% + 7.9%


For more information on number of companies, bonds, covered warrants,
and members, please see attached PDF-file.

More detailed statistics will be available later today at
http://omxgroup.com/nordicexchange/Themarket/Statisticsanalysis/