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In March 2010, equity markets (Bovespa segment) reached a total volume of BRL 148.81 billion, in 9,038,122 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.47 billion and 392,962 trades, respectively. In February, total volume reached BRL 118.06 billion, 7,355,993 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.55 billion and 408,666 trades, respectively.
The Ibovespa ended March up 5.8% at 70,371 points. Best performing stocks were: Redecard ON (+25.10%); Usiminas ON (+22.06%); SID Nacional ON (+26.61%); Usiminas PNA (+19.03%); and Fibria ON (+16.66%).The worst performing stocks were: JBS ON (-12.44%); LLX LOG ON (-12.26%); Rossi Resid ON (-12.25%); Duratex (-10.76%); and Gafisa ON (-10.29%).
The number of trades via Home Broker in March reached a record 6,269,139 trades, in contrast to 5,110,116 in the previous month. Volume in Home Broker trades totaled BRL 60.85 billion in March, compared to BRL 52.53 billion in February; daily average of trades reached 272,571 in March, in contrast to 283,895 in the previous month; the number of investors placing orders stood at 223,091, compared to 201,601; and Home Broker’s participation in the stock market’s total number of trades in March remained stable at 34.70%. In March, the number of brokerage firms offering Home Broker was 67, the same as in the previous month.
Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 71,691,088 contracts and BRL 4.75 trillion in volume in March. That compares to 39,306,238 contracts and a volume of BRL 2.47 trillion in February. The daily average of contracts traded in the derivatives markets set a new record in March, with 3,117,004 contracts, in contrast to the previous record of 2,183,680 in February 2010. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of March with 34,452,500 positions, compared to 27,556,692 in February.
During the month of March, Direct Market Access (DMA) trading at BM&FBOVESPA’s derivatives market segment reached a historic record of 18,404,891 contracts traded, in 1,93,044 trades, in contrast to the records registered in the previous month of 12,537,023 contracts traded, in 1,485,032 trades. During the same period, DMA trading via order routing with CME Group’s Globex also reached a record 3,931,514 contracts traded, in 1,039,213 trades. The previous trading records were 3,246,598 contracts traded (set in October 2009) and 816,205 trades (set on February 2010).
In March, equities market segment transactions carried out through order routing via Direct Market Access (DMA) registered a financial volume of BRL 136.86 billion and 11,867,547 trades. In February, the financial volume was BRL 112.32 billion and 9,546,982 trades, respectively.
