Shares worth €18bn traded on ISEQ

More than €180bn worth of Irish shares have been traded on the Irish Stock Exchange so far this year according to the chief executive of the Irish Stock Exchange, Deirdre Somers.

Ms Somers said that the market was experiencing a period of exceptional volatility and activity: “every market is experiencing significant volatility at present and the Irish market is no different. That’s also reflected in an increased volume of transactions with over 1.4 million individual trades (well over 6,000 a day) so far this.”