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ARTICLE · 16 MAY 1997

Amsterdam Exchange's Monthly Review

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The interest in shares in April remained high, with turnover amounting to 73.9bn guilders compared to52.2bn guilders in April 1996. Over the first four months of 1997 turnover in shares was 52.7% higher than in the same period in the previous year. Turnover amounted to 2.9mn contracts, as against 2nm contracts in April 1996. Over the first four months of 1997 turnover in stock options and options on stock indexes amounted to 13mn contracts, almost 60% higher than the turnover in the first four months of 1996.

On Friday, 18 April 1997, the last day of trading for April contracts on AEX-Optiebeurs, the value of shares traded on AEX-Effectenbeurs reached a record level of 7. lbn guilders.

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