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MarketAxess Announces Trading Volume Statistics for April 2026
NEW YORK, May 06, 2026--MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, today announced trading volume and preliminary variable transaction fees per million ("FPM") for April 2026.1
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