Activity on NYSE Euronext's cash markets rose significantly in April, while activity on the IPO front remained depressed, according to data released Friday evening by the pan-European stock exchange.

The parent company of the Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, and Oslo stock exchanges said in a statement that average daily trading volume rose 15% to 3.86 million compared with March 2025.

Year-on-year, i.e. compared with April 2024, trading volumes on its cash markets rose by 51%.

Over the first four months of the year, they rose by 31% to more than 3.20 million.

On the derivatives markets, which include equities, indices and commodities, average daily volume rose by 0.7% month-on-month and 6.4% year-on-year to 712,389 transactions.

April was marked by renewed volatility on global financial markets with the introduction, at the beginning of the month, of new tariffs by the Trump administration, which proved to be much more prohibitive than expected.

Regarding IPOs, Euronext reports that there were no IPOs on its markets last month. Since the beginning of the year, only eight transactions have materialized, compared with 13 in the same period in 2024.

Last month, Euronext launched a "standardized" European joint prospectus aimed at revitalizing the IPO market, which has been losing momentum due to the current complicated economic and political environment.

The group says it has begun to see some interest from companies that may previously have been interested in the US but now seem to be leaning towards Europe due to the current situation across the Atlantic.

Despite these figures, Euronext shares were down 0.9% on Monday morning on the Paris Stock Exchange, but are still up more than 36% this year.


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