The Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange – BM&FBOVESPA set yesterday (2/04) a record 79,672 trades in its derivatives segment. The previous record of 75,785 trades was set on 10/28/2009. Yesterday’s trading also set another record: financial volume in the interest rate futures (one-day ID) market totaled BRL 139.11 billion, in comparison to BRL 103.35 billion, set on 12/30/2009.
Exchange registers a record 1.2 million contracts traded via DMA in the derivatives segment
The BM&FBOVESPA reached also on 2/04/2010 the historic mark of 1,208,268
contracts traded in 103,114 trades via Direct Market Access (DMA) in the
derivatives segment. The previous records were 836,153 contracts traded (set on
1/28/2010) and 95,665 trades (set on 1/21/2010), respectively.
The number of contracts and trades carried out via the CME Globex - GTS order
routing system also set records during yesterday’s trading session: 229,284
contracts in 55,317 trades; in contrast to 221,273 contracts (set on 10/30/2009)
and 53,017 trades (set on 1/29/2010).
