Trade volumes spike at exchanges across Europe
By Samuel Agini and Philip Stafford
April 2, 2020, Financial Times
Huge amounts of share trading normally done through banks or anonymous marketplaces shifted back on to exchanges in March, as traders opted not to wait for end-of-day auctions to dump positions.
Monthly data showed that activity on exchanges and other public venues surged amid the ferociously volatile month, in which the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 made its quickest ever descent into a bear market, while the FTSE 100 recorded its worst quarter since 1987.
