2017 was a year characterized by high growth rates on the financial markets. This was also true of the Swiss stock exchange, with equity indices, for example, posting sharp increases. There was also a significant year- on-year rise in trading activity on SIX Swiss Exchange. Trading turnover was up by 5,2%, totalling CHF 1,345.9 billion by the end of the year. As far as the number of trades was concerned, the increase of 8.0% was even higher, equating to a full-year total of 51,402,173. It only took until 8 December for the trading turnover generated in the whole of the previous year – CHF 1,279.3 billion – to be exceeded. In 2017, exchange participants made an average of 204,790 securities trades per day worth an average total of CHF 5.4 billion.
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