The São Paulo Stock Exchange registered a daily average of 83,000 trades worth R$ 2.5 billion or USD 1.2 billion
- Foreign Investment Balance
- Investors Groups
- Home Broker Stake
- Trading Value
- Markets
- Ibovespa
- Other Indices
- Market Capitalization and Corporate Governance
- Fixed Income
- BOVESPA Popularization
Campaign
Foreign Investment Balance
BOVESPA's year-to-date foreign investment balance stood at BRL 3,225,063,317.00
or USD 1.48 billion, as of April 30. This figure includes the net inflow of BRL
1,188,555,680.00 or USD 568 million, resulting from purchases of BRL 16,704,975,348.00 or
USD 7,995,871,792.07 and sales of BRL 15,516,419,668.00 or USD 7,426,967,101.28, as shows
the table below:
2006 BOVESPA'S YEAR-TO-DATE FOREIGN INVESTMENT BALANCE - in USD
| Month | Buy* | Sell* | Net* | Year-to-Date |
| January | 7,923,006,926.90 | 6,743,428,177.80 | 1,179,578,749.10 | 1,179,578,749.10 |
| February | 8,018,278,779.68 | 8,281,271,599.63 | (262,992,819.95) | 916,585,929.15 |
| March | 8,685,016,187.17 | 8,692,297,398.73 | (7,281,211.56) | 909,304,717.59 |
| April | 7,995,871,792.07 | 7,426,967,101.28 | 568,904,690.79 | 1,478,209,408.38 |
* This information is calculated using the monthly closing exchange rate of the Central
Bank of Brazil.
Investors Groups
The monthly trading turnover was pushed once again by International Investors,
who led transactions with a 35.58% stake against 37.77% in March. Institutional Investors
ranked second with a 26.84% participation compared to 24.87% registered in the previous
month, followed by Individuals with 23.76% (against 25.65%); Financial Institutions,
12.17% (against 10.05%); Companies, 1.50%, (against 1.57%); and Other Groups, 0.15%
(against a 0.10% stake).
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Home Broker Stake
Home Broker system set records in trade volume and number, registering daily
averages of BRL 268.9 million and 34,100, respectively (against BRL 250.1 million and
31,683 in March). The Home Broker's stake in BOVESPA total trade volume also broke record
by reaching 21.31% (against 20.12%). There were 57,939 logins to the system in the period
(against 59,507 in March). The average value of transactions stood at BRL 7,800. Currently
51 brokerage houses provide this service.
Trading Value
In April, BOVESPA turned over BRL 45.5 billion or USD 21.4 billion compared to
BRL 50.3 billion or USD 23.3 billion in the previous month. The daily average stood at
83,116 trades worth BRL 2.5 billion or USD 1.2 billion, compared to 81,152 trades worth
BRL 2.2 billion or USD 1 billion registered in March. The most active stocks in terms of
trading value were: Petrobras PN (BRL 4.54 billion), Vale R Doce PNA (BRL 3.12 billion),
Bradesco PN (BRL 1.83 billion), Telemar PN (BRL 1.73 billion) and Telemar ON (BRL 1.43
billion).
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Markets
Cash Market was responsible for 93.7% of the total value registered in April,
followed by Options Market (3.3%) and Forward Market (3%). After Market amounted to 14,592
trades worth BRL 109,022,969.99, against 13,880 trades worth BRL 113,475,726.66 registered
in the previous month.
Ibovespa
The benchmark Ibovespa stock index, compound of the 57 most traded stocks on
BOVESPA, closed April up 6.3% at 40,363 points. The best performing stocks in the period
were Telemar ON (+82.1%), Brasil T Par ON (+37.5%); Eletrobras ON (+23.5%), Embratel Par
PN (+22.5%) and Souza Cruz ON (+20.2%), while the worst performing stocks were Contax PN
(-9.8%); Brasken PNA (-7.8%); Telesp PN (-7.2%); Vivo PN (-6.3%); and Telemig Part PN
(-5.0%).
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Other Indices
The following indices also closed the month up: ITEL (+7.3% at 1,042 points),
IBrX-50 (+5.7% at 5,790 points), IBrX-100 (+5.4% at 12,836 points), ITAG (+4.4% at 5,918
points), ISE (+3.7% at 1,229 points), IVBX-2 (+3.4% at 4,063 points); IGC (+3% at 4,368
points); and IEE (+2% at 12,392 points).
Market Capitalization and Corporate
Governance
The market capitalization of BOVESPA-listed companies amounted to BRL 1.37
trillion or USD 655million in April. The 73 corporations that so far joined the
Differentiated Levels of Corporate Governance were responsible for 48% of the total market
cap, registering a 53% stake in trading value and a 55% participation in trading volume on
BOVESPA’s cash market.
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Fixed Income
In April, 7 FIDCs (Receivable Investment Funds), 4 CRIs CRI (Real Estate
Receivable Certificate) and 4 Corporate Bonds have started to be traded on BOVESPA Fix and
SOMA Fix Markets. The trading value of BOVESPA fixed income markets turned over BRL
84,230,145.69 or USD 39,557,875.93 compared to BRL 260,210,209.32 or USD 120,917,723.46
totaled in the previous month. Out of this total, BRL 54,528,700.7 or USD 25,608,978.
referred to FIDCs, BRL 23,616,201.97 or USD 11,091,121.59 to Corporate Bonds and BRL
6,085,242.99 or USD 2,857,875.71 to CRIs.
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BOVESPA Popularization Campaign
Launched in April/2002, the popularization campaign "BOVESPA vai até Você"
(BOVESPA goes to you) has stimulated the creation of 1,095 new investment clubs over the
last four years. Only in April, the campaign resulted in 38 new investment clubs, thus
raising the number of new registrations this year to 151. BOVESPA had listed a total of
1,430 clubs as of April 30. According to the last data available (March), investment clubs
totaled BRL 8.3 billion in net asset and 121,500 investors.
