Market Report - June 2002

London Stock Exchange Plc
8 July 2002

8 July 2002
MONTHLY MARKET REPORT FOR JUNE 2002

•    DAILY AVERAGE NUMBER OF TRADES ON SETSTM EXCEEDS 100,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME
•    IPO VOLUMES RISE COMPARED WITH JUNE 2001

Trading on SETS, the Exchange's electronic order book, continues to grow. For
the first time in any month since its launch in October 1997, the daily average
number of trades on SETS exceeded 100,000. In June 2002 there were on average
102,421 trades per day, 64 per cent more than June 2001 when there were 62,354.

The number of trades in UK shares on the Exchange's markets in June 2002
increased by five per cent, from 2,659,547 trades last June to 2,792,245 this
June.

The total number of UK and international shares traded increased by nine per
cent in June 2002, up to 149.3 billion compared with 136.7 billion in June 2001.
The daily average increased by 28 per cent from 6.5 billion shares per day in
June 2001 to 8.3 billion in June 2002.

There were 20 new issues on the main market and AIM during June 2002. Of these
13 were IPOs, compared with 10 in June 2001. The IPOs this June raised £1,259.7
million between them, 52 per cent more than the £827.5 million raised by IPOs in
June 2001. On 26 June 2002, PRI Group plc completed the largest ever IPO on AIM,
raising £130.8 million.

In the first six months of 2002 a total of 29 UK main market IPOs raised
£4,260.2 million, 67 per cent more than the £2,546.5 million raised by 37 IPOs
in the same period last year.

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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

MONTHLY FACTSHEET FIGURES

June 2002

                                                    2002                             2001
DOMESTIC EQUITY TRADING                        Month    Year to date            Month    Year to date

Equity Trading Value (£m)                    145,004         927,223          151,985       1,010,600
Number of Equity Trades                    2,792,245      17,206,252        2,659,547      15,577,360

INTERNATIONAL EQUITY TRADING

Equity Trading Value (£m)                    265,517       1,551,759          351,843       2,108,260
Number of Equity Trades                    1,191,362       7,614,855        1,396,806       7,978,448


                                                            May 2002                   May 2001

DOMESTIC MARKET CAPITALISATION £bn                                    1,389                       1,628

TOTAL NUMBER OF COMPANIES                                             2,891                       2,930
UK list                                                1,784                    1,876
Foreign                                                434                      478
AIM                                                    673                      576
of which techMARK                                      234                      249




                                                     2002                            2001
MONEY RAISED £m                                 Month    Year to date          Month    Year to date

UK & AIM New Issues Equity                      1,262           4,587          1,122           3,256
Further, Rights and Other                         509           7,103            453          11,433
Bonds, Warrants, Fixed Interest                10,241          44,051          9,581          43,873
Int. New Issues Equity                              -               -              -           3,222
Further, Rights and Other                           -           1,258             16           1,297
Bonds, Warrants, Fixed Interest                 6,459          43,257         10,294          50,844


COMPANIES ADMITTED                                 20             123             27             161


INDICES PERFORMANCE                              Month Close        Mvt in Month           Mvt in Year
FTSE100                                              4,656.4                 -8%                  -11%
FTSE All Share                                       2,263.1                 -9%                  -10%
FTSE techMARK 100                                      868.5                -13%                  -41%
FTSE AIM                                               760.5                 -9%                  -15%





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