Trading activity on the Swiss exchange has risen sharply in the year to date compared with the same period of 2016. Trading turnover grew by 6.3% to CHF 1,245.1 billion, and the number of trades increased by 8.4% to 47,453,956. Exchange participants therefore traded securities with an average overall value of CHF 5.4 billion per trading day. At segment level, ETFs were particularly strong and reached a new all-time high: the previous all-time record high in terms of annual turnover, last year's figure of CHF 103.8 billion, was already surpassed on 23 November.
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