NEW YORK, July 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent execution and research broker, today announced that June 2014 U.S. trading volume was 3.1 billion shares and average daily volume (ADV) was 147 million shares. This compares to 3.0 billion shares and ADV of 144 million shares in May 2014 and 3.5 billion shares and ADV of 174 million shares in June 2013. There were 21 trading days in both June 2014 and May 2014 and 20 trading days in June 2013.

Commencing with the May 2014 U.S. volumes release, ITG now provides a monthly summary of average daily volume (double counted) and average trade size for the POSIT crossing network and the POSIT Alert indications system for block crossing.

ITG U.S. Trading Activity

 # of
Trade
Days		Total U.S.
Volume		Average U.S.
Daily Volume		Average
POSIT
Daily
Volume		Average
POSIT
Trade
Size		Average
POSIT
Alert Daily
Volume		POSIT
Alert
Average
Trade Size		POSIT Alert
Avg. Trade
Size
Ex-Algos*
                 
June 2014 21 3,086,992,290 146,999,633 64,787,248 246 14,395,814 15,411 33,665
                 
Year-to-Date: 124 19,406,342,995  156,502,766 68,215,712 256 15,989,064 16,485 34,907

*Excluding shares crossed through POSIT Alert from ITG algorithms

These statistics are preliminary and may be revised in subsequent updates and public filings. Volume statistics are posted on the investor relations section of ITG's website, investor.itg.com and are available via a downloadable spreadsheet file.

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