Vienna Stock Exchange News

Change in trading hours as of January 2, 2009

Wiener Börse AG will change trading hours as of January 2, 2009 and thereby provide harmonization with other trading venues.

The changes are as follows:

  • For all listed instruments, Pre-Trading will be preponed from 8:30 to 8:00.
  • As of next year, Continuous Trading with Auctions will be started at 8:55, 20 minutes earlier than now. Trading of investment funds is not covered by this measure.
  • For investment funds, trading will start at 9:06 with the call phase for the opening auction
  • For the Mid Market, the call phase will be extended from 12:30 – 13:00 to 12:30 – 13:30.


  • On the Derivatives Market Continuous Trading for Austrian Derivatives (including NTX) will be extended, by 10 minutes, to 17:40.
  • Adjustment- and Exercising Phase, following the trading phase, will be adopted accordingly.
  • Trading in CEE-Derivatives and Warrants is not effected.


All details on the (PDF-File 58 KB), valid as of January 2, 2009. Changes to former trading hours are marked bold and in red colour.