Market Report - June 2002
London Stock Exchange Plc
8 July 2002
8 July 2002
MONTHLY MARKET REPORT FOR JUNE 2002
• DAILY AVERAGE NUMBER OF TRADES ON SETSTM EXCEEDS 100,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME
• IPO VOLUMES RISE COMPARED WITH JUNE 2001
Trading on SETS, the Exchange's electronic order book, continues to grow. For
the first time in any month since its launch in October 1997, the daily average
number of trades on SETS exceeded 100,000. In June 2002 there were on average
102,421 trades per day, 64 per cent more than June 2001 when there were 62,354.
The number of trades in UK shares on the Exchange's markets in June 2002
increased by five per cent, from 2,659,547 trades last June to 2,792,245 this
June.
The total number of UK and international shares traded increased by nine per
cent in June 2002, up to 149.3 billion compared with 136.7 billion in June 2001.
The daily average increased by 28 per cent from 6.5 billion shares per day in
June 2001 to 8.3 billion in June 2002.
There were 20 new issues on the main market and AIM during June 2002. Of these
13 were IPOs, compared with 10 in June 2001. The IPOs this June raised £1,259.7
million between them, 52 per cent more than the £827.5 million raised by IPOs in
June 2001. On 26 June 2002, PRI Group plc completed the largest ever IPO on AIM,
raising £130.8 million.
In the first six months of 2002 a total of 29 UK main market IPOs raised
£4,260.2 million, 67 per cent more than the £2,546.5 million raised by 37 IPOs
in the same period last year.
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MONTHLY FACTSHEET FIGURES
June 2002
2002 2001
DOMESTIC EQUITY TRADING Month Year to date Month Year to date
Equity Trading Value (£m) 145,004 927,223 151,985 1,010,600
Number of Equity Trades 2,792,245 17,206,252 2,659,547 15,577,360
INTERNATIONAL EQUITY TRADING
Equity Trading Value (£m) 265,517 1,551,759 351,843 2,108,260
Number of Equity Trades 1,191,362 7,614,855 1,396,806 7,978,448
May 2002 May 2001
DOMESTIC MARKET CAPITALISATION £bn 1,389 1,628
TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPANIES 2,891 2,930
UK list 1,784 1,876
Foreign 434 478
AIM 673 576
of which techMARK 234 249
2002 2001
MONEY RAISED £m Month Year to date Month Year to date
UK & AIM New Issues Equity 1,262 4,587 1,122 3,256
Further, Rights and Other 509 7,103 453 11,433
Bonds, Warrants, Fixed Interest 10,241 44,051 9,581 43,873
Int. New Issues Equity - - - 3,222
Further, Rights and Other - 1,258 16 1,297
Bonds, Warrants, Fixed Interest 6,459 43,257 10,294 50,844
COMPANIES ADMITTED 20 123 27 161
INDICES PERFORMANCE Month Close Mvt in Month Mvt in Year
FTSE100 4,656.4 -8% -11%
FTSE All Share 2,263.1 -9% -10%
FTSE techMARK 100 868.5 -13% -41%
FTSE AIM 760.5 -9% -15%
This information is provided by RNS
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