- Average daily value traded increased 2.71% m/m (+47.77% y/y) to €112.60 billion as volatility, measured by the VSTOXX average daily close, jumped 40.37% m/m (+75.40% y/y) to 28.87.
- OTC (+235 bps m/m), lit continuous trading (+102 bps m/m) and periodic auctions (+6 bps m/m) gained market share, while closing auctions (-176 bps m/m), opening auctions (-68 bps m/m), bank SIs (-65 bps m/m), dark order books (-31 bps m/m) and ELP SIs (-3 bps m/m) lost ground.
- Cboe DXE Europe (+77 bps m/m) and SIX Swiss Exchange (+57 bps m/m) gained the most on-venue market share among European venues, while Deutsche Börse (-73 bps m/m) and the London Stock Exchange (-61 bps m/m) lost the most.
- Of the major national listing exchanges, Deutsche Börse (+300 bps m/m, DE 40) and Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (+204 bps m/m, ES 35) gained the most market share in their home indices. Euronext Brussels (-358 bps m/m, BE 20), the London Stock Exchange (-299 bps m/m, UK 250) and Nasdaq Stockholm (-223 bps m/m, SE 30) lost the most.
- Alternative closing-auction mechanisms accounted for 8.06% of total on-venue end-of-day activity in April, up 68 bps m/m.
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