- Foreign Investment Balance
- Novo Mercado and Levels of Corporate Governance
- Investors Groups
- Home Broker Stake
- Trading Value
- Markets
- Ibovespa
- Other Indices
- Market Capitalization
- Fixed Income
- BOVESPA Popularization Campaign
BOVESPA´s foreign investment balance presented an outflow of BRL 1,264,502,065.00 or USD 595,143,815.60 in January. This figure results from purchases of BRL 20,702,914,240.00 or USD 9,743,923,490.38 and sales of BRL 21,967,416,305.00 or USD 10,339,067,305.97, as shows the table below:
2007 BOVESPA´s Year-to-Date Foreign Investment Balance - in USD
| Month | Buy* | Sell* | Net* | Year-to-Date |
| January | 9,743,923,490.38 | 10,339,067,305.97 | (595,143,815.60) | (595,143,815.60) |
| * This information is calculated using the monthly closing exchange rate of the Central Bank of Brazil. | ||||
Novo Mercado and Levels of Corporate Governance
The IGC (Corporate Governance Index) closed January up 2.4%. It is composed of 97 companies: 47 of Novo Mercado and 50 of Level 1 and 2. These companies now represent 59% of BOVESPA´s total market capitalization, 63% of the total trading value of BOVESPA. In the period, three companies joined Novo Mercado: on January 26, PDG had its IPO and on January 31, Rodobens and Camargo Corrêa had their IPOs.
IPOs – Capital Raised
| Date | Company | Ticker | Amount - USD | Foreign Investors´ Participation |
| January/2007 | PDG | pdgr3 | not avaiable at this date | not avaiable at this date |
| Rodobens | rdni3 | not avaiable at this date | not avaiable at this date | |
| Camargo Corrêa | ccim3 | not avaiable at this date | not avaiable at this date | |
| * This information is calculated using the Central Bank of Brasil exchange rate on the first day of Trading. | ||||
The monthly trading turnover was pushed once again by International Investors, who led transactions with a 32.9% stake against 34.1% in December. Institutional Investors ranked second with 28.4% compared to 27.4% registered in the previous month, followed by Individuals with 26.0% (against 23.9%); Financial Institutions, 9.4% (against 12.6%); Companies, 3.1%, (against 2.0%); and Other Groups, the same 0.1% registered in December.
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Home Broker Stake
In January, the participation of Home Broker system in BOVESPA´s total result reached 8.28% and 24.90% in trade value and volume, accordingly, against 7.76% and 25.57% in December. The system reached daily averages of 54,396 transactions with BRL 456 million financial value traded (against 48,033 trades with BRL 411.9 million in the previous month). Currently provided by 52 brokerage houses, Home Broker registered 88,343 logins in the period. The average value of trade stood at BRL 8,300.
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Trading Value
In January, BOVESPA turned over BRL 64.9 billion or USD 30.2 billion compared to BRL 60.1 billion in the previous month. The daily average stood at 113,741 trades and BRL 3.1 billion or USD 1.4 billion as financial value traded, while December registered 98,534 trades as average with BRL 3.2 billion financial value traded. The most active stocks in terms of trading value were: Petrobras PN (BRL 8.98 billion); Vale R Doce PNA (BRL 6.17 billion); Petrobras ON (BRL 1,84 billion); Bradesco PN (BRL 1.83 billion); and Usiminas PNA (BRL 1,69 billion).
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Markets
Cash Market was responsible for 91.9% of the total value registered in January, followed by Options (4.4%) and Forward (3.7%). The After Market amounted to 20,252 trades worth BRL 235,774,086.36 (against 18,236 trades worth BRL 231,463,768.66 registered in the previous month).
Ibovespa
The benchmark Ibovespa broad index closed January up 0.3% at 44,641 points. The best performing stocks in the period were Bradespar PN (+12.08%); Vale R Doce ON (+11,62%); Vale R Doce PNA (+10.91); Ipiranga PET PN (+9.21%); and Banco do Brasil ON (+8.59%), while the worst performing stocks were Telemar N L PNA (-11.11%); Tim Part S.A. ON (-9.71%); Aracruz PNB (-9.60%); Perdigão S.A. ON (-9.36%); and Cosan ON (-8.95%).
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Other Indices
The following indices closed the month up: IGC (+2.4% at 5,295 points), IBrX-50 (+0.7% at 6,502 points), IBrX-100 (+0.9% at 14,703 points), ITAG (+1.5% at 7,073 points), INDX (+1.3% at 7,200 points) while the following indices closed January down: ITEL (-4.3% at 1,008 points); IVBX-2 (-1.3% at 4,673 points); ISE (-0.4% at 1,427 points). The IEE remained stable at 13,975 points.
Market Capitalization
In January, the market capitalization of BOVESPA-listed companies amounted to BRL 1.58 trillion or USD 745 billion.
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Fixed Income
In January, 5 FIDC (Receivable Investment Funds) and 3 Corporate Bond have started to trade on BOVESPA Fix and SOMA Fix Markets. The trading value of BOVESPA fixed income markets turned over BRL 58,122,979.90 or USD 27,143,785.01 (against BRL 20,200,260.50 totaled in previous month). Out of this total, BRL 29,706,960.00 referred to FIDCs, BRL 23,563,330.40 to CRIs (Real Estate Receivable Certificates) and BRL 4,852,689.50 to Corporate Bonds.
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BOVESPA Popularization Campaign
Since September/2002, the popularization campaign BOVESPA Where You Are has stimulated the creation of 1,400 investment clubs. The campaign resulted in 36 new investment clubs last January. BOVESPA had a total of 1,656 clubs registered as of January 31. According to last data available (December/06), investment clubs total assets amount to BRL 9.6 billion and 131,969 investors.
