The recently launched Austrian equity options segment will be extended, with five new options on Austrian Airlines, Intercell, Österreichische Post, Strabag and Wiener Städtische Versicherung. The new options will be available as of 10 December. According to Eurex, since the launch of this segment in September, it has already gained a market share of 25% (nominal value adjusted to be comparable with local derivatives market), thanks to "very competitive pricing". To encourage trading and support liquidity of Austrian equity options, the trading fee in December 2007 will be lowered by 50% to 0.10 Euro cents.

Two new equity options on Swatch Bearer Shares and BB Biotech will be launched on 17 December, and will complement the Swiss equity options segment. Contract specifications of the new options will be in-line with the existing products, Eurex explained.

Additionally, due to the inclusion of Deutsche Börse AG and Volkswagen in the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index, Eurex will increase the available contract months for equity options based on these two underlyings from 24 months to 60 months, as of 10 December.

As part of the announced single stock futures (SSFs) expansion, Eurex will also introduce 107 new SSFs in December 2007 and January 2008. A block of 17 single stock futures will start trading on 10 December, a block of 20 further SSFs will follow on 17 December, and another block will be launched on 7 January, 2008. 54 out of these 57 new SSFs will have UK stocks as underlying and will be denominated in British Pounds, with the remaining three being based on Russian underlyings, and priced in US dollars. Starting on 21 January 2008, Eurex will further expand its offerings with 50 single stock futures on US underlyings, namely the top companies of the benchmark index S&P 500.

Eurex is one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges, and is jointly operated by Deutsche Börse AG and SWX Swiss Exchange. Trading volume at Eurex regularly exceeds 1 billion contracts a year.