BM&FBOVESPA announces January’s trading performance. The month’s highlights are record co-location trades and financial volume in the Bovespa Segment (equities) and a record number of securities lending transactions. In January, the total number of securities lending transactions reached a record 98,352, compared to 92,405 transactions in August 2010 and 91,926 in December. There was also a record financial volume of BRL 59.05 billion in January from BRL 49.36 billion in December. In January, BOVESPA market segment transactions carried out through Direct Market Access (DMA) via co-location registered a record financial volume of BRL 2,512,390,000.00 and a record 385,960 trades. The previous records were BRL 1,510,987.000.00 and 228,273 trades in December 2010. In January 2011, equity markets (Bovespa segment) traded BRL 129.49 billion, in 9,304,931 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.47 billion and 9,304,931 trades, in comparison to December when total volume reached BRL 132.48 billion, in 9,091,400 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.3 billion and 432,924 trades. Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 53,040,432 contracts and BRL 3.97 trillion in volume in January, compared to 62,099,275 contracts and BRL 4.43 trillion in December. The daily average of contracts traded in the derivatives markets in January was 2,525,735 contracts, in contrast to 2,957,108 in December. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of January with 31,451,156 positions, compared to 46,013,611 in December. Vale, Petrobras, OGX, Itaú Unibanco and BM&FBOVESPA are the stocks with the largest financial volume in the month. The most traded stocks in January were: Vale PNA, with BRL 14.76 billion; Petrobras PN with BRL 12.82 billion; OGX Petróleo ON, with BRL 6.04 billion; Itauunibanco ON, with BRL 4.85 billion; and BM&FBOVESPA, with BRL 3.68 billion. Ibovespa ended January down 3.93% The Ibovespa ended January at 66,574 points, down 3.93% from the previous month. New investment club registrations total 30 in January BM&FBOVESPA ended January with 3,038 investment clubs and 30 new registrations. Total liquid assets reached BRL 11.39 billion and the number of participants reached 131,521, according to the latest available data. The daily average number of trades via Internet grows Average daily trading via Home Broker was at 245,000 trades in January, compared to 212,477 in December. The total number of trades reached 4,899,995 in January, compared to 4,462,019 in December. The volume in Home Broker trades totaled BRL 37.96 billion in January, compared to BRL 34.94 billion in December. Home Broker’s participation in the stock market’s total volume in January was 26.33%, compared to 24.09% in December. In January, the number of brokerage firms offering Home Broker was 68 from 65 in December. See the turnover in financial derivatives In January, interest rate futures (ID) traded 23,128,405 contracts, in contrast to 35,823,215 in December. The US dollar futures ended the month of October with 5,451,925 contracts, compared to 5,962,035 in the previous month. The Ibovespa futures traded 1,109,490 contracts, compared to 1,241,180 in December. The Euro futures contract (EUR) registered 61,290 contracts, in contrast to 33,480 contracts in December. See the turnover in agribusiness derivatives In January, the BM&FBOVESPA agribusiness derivatives market (including futures and options) totaled 157,202 contracts traded, compared to 157,421 in December. Agribusiness markets totaled 132,483 open interest contracts, in contrast to 131,143 in the previous month. Live cattle futures and options totaled a record 61,105 contracts traded in January, compared to 78,836 in December. Arabica coffee ended January with 43,758 contracts, compared to 44,953 in December. Soybeans totaled 7,572 contracts, compared to 7,602 in December, and cash-settled corn futures and options totaled 41,480 contracts traded, compared to 20,544 in December. Hydrous ethanol futures totaled 3,221 contracts, compared to 5,486 in December. More spot gold contracts traded The spot gold market (250 grams) traded, in January, 1,972 contracts, compared to 1,592 contracts in December. Spot gold market volume totaled BRL 38.06 million, compared to BRL 32.66 million in the previous month. More individual investors in the BM&F segment BM&FBOVESPA ended January with 153,707 individual investor derivatives accounts in custody, compared to 149,573 accounts in December.
The best performing stocks were: Usiminas ON (+17.05%); Embraer ON (+14.58%); Telemar ON (+12.63%); TIM Participações S/A PN (+11.80%); and TIM Participações S/A PN ON (+9.99%). The worst performing stocks were: Cyrela Realty ON (-15.74%); LLX Log ON (-15.43%); Gafisa ON (-15.20%); Santander BR UNT (-14.28%); and Lojas Renner ON (-14.18%).
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BM&FBOVESPA Announces January 2011 Market Performance
Date 08/02/2011