Mexican Derivatives Exchange: The Probable Rise In Interest Rates Causes Operations With High Volume - 5.09 Millions Of Contracts Traded May 10

In the session of May 10 the negotiated volume of 5.090.484 contracts of futures was registered, number superior in 87% to the preceding record that corresponded to 2´718,162 contracts obtained in February 27th, of 2004.

The previous thing, responds to great operations of SWAP of interest rates, known like “engrapado" in MexDer, for the next 32 months, before more and more the probable rise of interest rates at world-wide level.

The generalized volatileness of the financial markets observed this Monday, precipitated these types of operations that take place of daily way in MexDer.

The number of operations corresponds to 283, with a notional amount equivalent to 506 billion of Mexican Pesos (43. 9 Billions of United States Dollar)