With sales of 131.5 million euros, the Clearstream segment contributed 25.1 million euros to the EBIT. Eurex sales revenue, at 104.4 million euros, was 42 percent higher than the year before (Q1/ 2002: 73.7 million euros). Eurex EBIT rose to 62.9 million euros, 76 percent above Q1/ 2002 (35.8 million euros). Xetra, with sales of 45.9 million euros, about 17 percent lower than the previous year's first-quarter figure, achieved EBIT of 4.4 million euros (Q1/ 2002: 11.1 million euros). The Information Services and Information Technology segments were nearly even in sales with 33.5 million euros and 35.2 million euros, respectively; in EBIT, Information Services grew 65 percent to 12.9 million euros, and Information Technology 79 percent, to 24.4 million euros.
