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Trading Volume in May 2012

(1 June 2012)

 The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 439,864 increasing 2.1% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and increasing 40.8% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 20,946 .

[TABLE 1]
Items
May 2012
Trading Volume
Daily Average
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Total of Interest Rate Futures contracts

440,664

20,984

40.7%

2.3%

3-month Euroyen futures

439,864

20,946

40.8%

2.1%

Options on 3-month Euroyen futures

-

-

-

-

Put

-

-

-

-

Call

-

-

-

-

Six-month Euroyen LIBOR futures

800

38

-0.1%

-

  The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 5,651,906 decreasing 54.6% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and increasing 5.9% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 245,816 . See the TABLE 2 for the composition of the trading volume.

[TABLE 2]
Items
May 2012
Trading Volume
Daily Average
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Click 365

5,651,906

245,816

5.9%

-54.6%

USD/JPY

611,861

26,603

-39.2%

-77.2%

EUR/JPY

1,388,390

60,365

11.0%

-46.2%

GBP/JPY

430,516

18,718

3.1%

-62.7%

AUD/JPY

1,901,044

82,654

17.8%

-54.7%

CHF/JPY

39,597

1,722

17.6%

-49.5%

CAD/JPY

37,870

1,647

-18.0%

-64.6%

NZD/JPY

403,011

17,522

23.4%

1.6%

EUR/USD

310,565

13,503

24.0%

-55.7%

GBP/USD

23,952

1,041

-14.5%

-52.1%

Other Currency pairs

505,100

22,041

37.9%

-0.1%




  The total trading volume of Equity Index Daily Futures contracts (Kabu 365) was 172,975 increasing 142.3% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and increasing 0.8% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 7,537 . See the TABLE 3 for the composition of the trading volume.

[TABLE 3]
Items
May 2012
Trading Volume
Daily Average
Change on Previous Month
Year on Year Change
Kabu 365

172,975

7,537

0.8%

142.3%

Nikkei 225 Daily Futures contract

164,703

7,161

0.2%

237.3%

DAX® Daily Futures contract

5,994

272

18.0%

-42.2%

FTSE 100 Daily Futures contract

1,739

79

32.4%

-83.8%

FTSE China 25 Margin contracts

539

25

-33.5%

-63.5%

The total trading volume was 6,265,545 , decreasing 51.6% in comparison to that of the previous year comparable month, and increasing 7.6% in comparison to that of the previous month, and the daily average was 274,337 .

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