Deutsche Börse Registers Overall Slump in Cash Market Trading Volumes for April 2023

Deutsche Börse has released its cash market trading volumes for April 2023, seeing the markets' turnover totaled to €85.62 billion in the month, 33.9% lower than €129.46 billion in April 2022 and 38.9% lower than €140.21 billion in March 2023.

€83.18 billion were attributable to Xetra (previous year: €126.53 billion / previous month €136.42 billion), bringing the average daily Xetra trading volume to €4.62 billion (previous year: €6.66 billion / previous month: €5.93 billion). Trading volumes on Börse Frankfurt were €2.44 billion (previous year: €2.93 billion / previous month: €3.79 billion).

By type of asset class, equities accounted for €71.66 billion in the entire cash market (previous month: €116.44 billion). Trading in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs generated a turnover of €12.48 billion. Turnover in bonds was €0.69 billion, in certificates €0.75 billion and in funds €0.03 billion.

The DAX stock with the highest turnover on Xetra in April was SAP SE with €3.70 billion. Lufthansa AG led the MDAX with €652.21 million, while Software AG led the SDAX index with €336.20 million. In the ETF segment the ISHS CORE DAX UC.ETF EOA generated the largest volume with €511.22 million.