Daily currency trading volumes rose 5.8 percent in October versus the same month last year, totalling $1.71 trillion, CLS data showed on Thursday, as volatility in foreign exchange markets picked up. CLS, a major settler of trades in the foreign exchange market, said in a statement that the average daily traded volume of currencies submitted to it rose from $1.616 trillion in October 2017.
Both swap and spot volumes rose versus a year earlier while turnover in currency forwards declined, CLS said. October saw a large selloff in global equity markets after investors - including in foreign exchange - worried about the spectre of an economic slowdown and the end of a long bull market run.
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