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BOVESPA’s Monthly Performance - January Set Records In Trading Value And Volume - Number Of Home Broker Users Exceeded 52,000

Date 06/02/2006

Foreign Investment Balance
BOVESPA ended January with a surplus in the foreign investment inflow which amounted to R$ 2,613,946,508.00, resulting from stock purchases of R$ 17,557,383,350.00 and sales of R$ 14,943,436,842.00.

Investors Groups
The monthly trading turnover was pushed once again by Foreign Investors, who led transactions with a 35.13% stake against 33.16% in December. Institutional Investors ranked second with a 27.92% participation compared to 27.86% registered in the previous month, followed by Individuals with 25.44% (against 22.99%); Financial Institutions, 9.20% (against 12.61%); Companies, 2.09% (against 2.23%); and Other Groups, 0.22% (against a 0.15% stake).
Investors' Participation

Home Broker Stake
In January, Home Broker system set historical record in number of users - 52,208 against 45,036 in the previous month – and also in BOVESPA total trade volume - 21.05% stake against 20.50%, respectively. The daily average of trades stood at R$ 253.4 million (against R$ 181.2 million). The average value of transactions in the period were R$ 8,000 (against R$ 7,400). Currently 51 brokerage houses provide this service.

Trading Value
In January, BOVESPA turned over R$ 46.3 billion compared to R$ 37.4 billion in the previous month. The daily average stood at 77,640 trades worth R$ 2.2 billion, compared to 61,779 trades worth R$ 1.8 billion registered in December. The most active stocks in terms of trading value were: Petrobras PN (R$ 4.85 billion); Vale R Doce PNA (R$ 3.08 billion); Bradesco PN (R$ 1.88 billion); Caemi PN (R$ 1.72 billion); and Usiminas PNA (R$ 1.44 billion).
Trading Value X Number of Trades

Markets
Cash Market was responsible for 93% of the total value registered in January, followed by Options Market (4.1%) and Forward Market (2.9%). After Market amounted to 13,732 trades worth R$ 207,350,180.71, against 10,291 transactions worth R$ 128,081,518.36 registered in the previous month.

Ibovespa
The benchmark Ibovespa stock index, compound of the 57 most traded stocks on BOVESPA, closed January up 14.7% at 38,382 points. The best performing stocks in the period were Tim Part. PN (+38.9%), Tim Part. ON (+35.2%), Cesp PN (+35.1%), Usiminas PNA (+33%) and Sid Nacional ON (+29.2%), while the worst performing stocks were Embratel Par PN (-13.2%), Brasil T Par PN (-9.2%), Aracruz PNB (-7.5%), Braskem PNA (-6.7%) and Telemar N L (-6.1%).
Index Comparative: Ibovespa X IBrX 50

Other Indices
The following indices also presented positive performance in January: ITAG (+19.4%, at 5,734 points); IBrX-50 (+18.7% at 5,727 points); IBrX-100 (+18.3%, at 12,669 points); IGC (+17.9%, at 4,316 points); IVBX-2 (+10.3%, at 3,894 points); IEE (+12.5%, at 11,177 points); and ITEL (+6.3% at 1,012 points).

Fixed Income
In January, eight new fixed income securities have started to be traded on BOVESPA Fix and SOMA Fix Markets: four Receivables Investment Funds (FIDCs), three Real Estate Backed Security (CRIs) and one Corporate Bond. The trading value of BOVESPA fixed income markets turned over R$ 17,978,283.58, compared to R$ 82,344,889.87 registered in the previous month. Out of this total, R$ 9,381,231.48 referred to Corporate Bonds; R$ 6,944,415.21 to CRIs; and R$ 1,652,636.89 to FIDC.


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