Market Report - July 2002
London Stock Exchange Plc
07 August 2002
7 August 2002
MONTHLY MARKET REPORT FOR JULY 2002
RECORD SETS VOLUMES IN JULY DURING MONTH OF HEAVY TRADING ACROSS EXCHANGE
A month of heavy trading on the London Stock Exchange in July 2002 saw a record
number of trades on SETS, the Exchange's electronic order book. The Exchange
today published its monthly market activity figures for July (see attached).
The total number of UK trades on the Exchange increased to 3.89 million trades
in July 2002, up by 56 per cent compared with 2.50 million in July 2001. Taking
in to account 23 business days in July 2002 against 22 in the same month 2001,
there was a 49 per cent increase in the average daily number of UK trades to
169,316 trades in July 2002, up from 113,586 in July 2001.
The rise in market volume was most notable on SETS, where there was a 103 per
cent increase in the total number of trades: a record 2.63 million trades in
July 2002 compared with 1.30 million in the corresponding period in 2001. As a
result, SETS' market share increased to 64 per cent for the month.
On 16 July 2002, there were 158,147 trades on SETS - a one-day record for SETS
trading volumes.
Meanwhile, on the primary market there were 22 new issues during July 2002, 8 of
which were IPOs. Of the IPOs, 3 were on the main market and 5 were on AIM,
raising £385.6 million between them.
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MONTHLY FACTSHEET FIGURES
July 2002
2002 2001
DOMESTIC EQUITY TRADING Month Year to date Month Year to date
Equity Trading Value (£m) 188,229 1,115,452 141,660 1,152,260
Number of Equity Trades 3,894,264 21,100,516 2,498,899 18,076,259
INTERNATIONAL EQUITY TRADING
Equity Trading Value (£m) 272,960 1,824,718 286,248 2,394,508
Number of Equity Trades 1,428,206 9,043,061 1,476,146 9,454,594
July 2002 July 2001
DOMESTIC MARKET CAPITALISATION £bn 1,258 1,625
TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPANIES 2,881 2,926
UK list 1,770 1,862
Foreign 432 477
AIM 679 587
of which techMARK 229 249
2002 2001
MONEY RAISED £m Month Year to date Month Year to date
UK & AIM New Issues Equity 387 4,974 2,448 5,704
Further, Rights and Other 2,316 9,419 515 11,948
Bonds, Warrants, Fixed Interest 8,287 52,339 7,520 51,393
Int. New Issues Equity - - 70 3,292
Further, Rights and Other 457 1,715 15 1,312
Bonds, Warrants, Fixed Interest 7,320 50,577 4,729 55,573
COMPANIES ADMITTED 22 145 27 188
INDICES PERFORMANCE Month Close Mvt in Month Mvt in Year
FTSE100 4,246.2 -9% -19%
FTSE All Share 2,050.8 -9% -19%
FTSE techMARK 100 773.7 -11% -47%
FTSE AIM 683.8 -10% -24%
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