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BM&FBOVESPA Special Trading Hours On Ash Wednesday

Date 17/02/2012

BM&FBOVESPA informs you that the special trading hours on February 22, Ash Wednesday, that date will be as follows:

Equities

Regular hours – Continuous session from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

After-Market - from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Options Exercise

  • from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – stock options exercise
  • from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – index options exercise

Derivatives

  • from 12:55 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – pre-opening;
  • from 1:00 p.m., trading with the closing times for each of the markets maintained as on any other day.

In the specific cases of structured transactions with forward points on U.S. Dollar (positions opened on T+0) and Ibovespa Futures, the trading hours will be as follows:

ContractTickerRegular Hours
    Opening Closing
Forward Points on U.S. Dollar FUT FRP0 1:00 p.m 1:45 p.m.
Forward Points on Ibovespa FUT FWI 1:00 p.m 1:45 p.m.

 

There will be no opening call for volatility transactions (VTC, VID, VOI and VTF). There will only be the VOI volatility call at 3:30 p.m. and the VCA volatility call at 4:30 p.m.

Trading in the spot FX market shall follow its usual timetable, starting at 9:00 a.m. for contracts with T+0 (USDP0000), T+1 (USDP0001) and T+2 (USDP0002) settlement.

Fixed Income

  • SISBEX – continuous trading from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • BOVESPA FIX and SOMA FIX – continuous trading from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.