FOREX and Derivatives Market Activity in April 2010 /BIS/

[Martin]

Bank for International Settlements (BIS), does statistics about foreign exchange market (FOREX) every 3 years.

Now (September 2010) they released latest report from April 2010.

From report: "Global foreign exchange market turnover was 20% higher in April 2010 than in April 2007, with average daily turnover of $4.0 trillion compared to $3.3 trillion.".

Most "popular pairs" by daily turnover (during April 2010) were:

EUR/USD (27,66%)
USD/JPY (14,26%)
GBP/USD (9,06%)
AUD/USD (6,25%)
CAD/USD (4,57%)
USD/CHF (4,22%)
EUR/JPY (2,78%)
EUR/GBP (2,74%)
EUR/CHF (1,80%)

Source:
http://www.bis.org/publ/rpfx10.htm
http://www.bis.org/publ/rpfx10_tables.xls