The Luxembourg Stock Exchange listed a total of 1,220 new investment funds during 2010. The exchange improved its position overall in the listing of international securities during the year, admitting 9,350 new securities in all, a 20.85% increase compared with 7,737 in 2009.
For its two markets, the breakdown was as follows: 8,210 securities on the “Bourse de Luxembourg” regulated market, and 1,140 on the Euro MTF market. As well as the 1,220 investment funds, the exchange listed 5,608 bonds, 53 shares and depositary receipts, and 2,469 warrants.
As regards the share segment, the overwhelming majority of the listed instruments were global depositary receipts, essentially from India and Taiwan. The Stock Exchange has acquired a predominant position in this segment in which it has long played a pioneering role; the first global depositary receipt was listed in Luxembourg twenty years ago, in December 1990.
On 31 December 2010, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange had a total of 44,916 quotation lines compared with 45,660 in 2009, a 1.63% drop. Bonds and warrants are still the most important segments, with 29,566 and 7,581 lines respectively.
This renewed dynamism in listing activities is in line with an overall recovery and can also be explained by the proactive policy pursued by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
On 31 December 2010, the global volume of transactions on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange reached EUR219.16 million. Share trading volumes accounted for 74.99%, or EUR164.35 million in absolute terms, while volume on fixed-income securities amounted to 25.01% or EUR54.81 million.
The LuxX closed the year at 1,542.12 points, up 12.44% compared with 2009. The highest level was reached on 7 April 2010 (1,620.06 points), and the lowest on 20 May 2010 (1,327.41 points). The performance of LuxX is in line with the trend for European stock exchanges during the course of 2010.