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ETFs Continue to Dominate Equity Volume in August

September 13, 2010 3:26 PM EDT
Abel/Noser released its August 2010 liquidity study showing again that ETF volume continues to dominate U.S. equities trading.

ETF SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) was the top traded security and accounted for 10.66% of the total domestic principal traded, with $19.5 trillion trading on average per day.

Other top ETFs were iShares Russell 2000 Index (NYSE: IWM) at number 3 with 1.83% of the volume, PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq: QQQQ) was number 4 at 1.55%, and iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (NYSE: EEM) was number 5 at 1.19%.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was number 2 on the list, with 1.9% of the average daily volume. Other top company stocks were Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) at number 6, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) at number 7, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) at number 8, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) number 9 and PotashCorp (NYSE: POT) at number 10.

The top 20 equities accounted for over 26% of the domestic principal traded. The top 112 equities accounted for over half of the day's volume.


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