The net outflow of foreign investments in the Brazilian Stock Market accounted to BRL 1,004,323,500.70 (or USD 561,093,371.80) in 2008. This figure includes purchases of international investors in the public offerings, which amounted to BRL 3,726,827,622.30 (or USD 2,102,859,683.20), and the net trading value at BOVESPA, which registered an outflow of BRL 4,731,151,123.00 (or USD 2,663,953,056.00), as of January 31, 2008.
In January, international investors’ total purchase at BOVESPA was BRL 41,932,931,354.00 (or USD 23,650,055,213.00) and total sales of BRL 46,664,082,477.00 (or USD 26,314,008,268.00), totalling a net outflow of BRL 4,731,151,123.00 (or USD 2,663,953,056.00).
2008 BOVESPA's Year-To-Date Foreign Investment Balance - in USD
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MONTH | BUY | SELL | NET | YEAR-TO-DATE |
January | 23.650.055.213 | 26.314.008.268 | (2.663.953.055) | (2.663.953.055) |
* Note: the figures in USD are calculated using the closing exchange rate of each trading day
The International Investor’s participation in public offerings represented 54.5% of the total value of offerings in 2008, which accounted to BRL 6,832,691,188.80 (or USD 3,856,931,319.00) -considering only the IPOs whose closure notices were published up to February 6th, 2008
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Date | Amount - USD** | |||
January | 993,20 |
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Total | 993,20 |
* This information is calculated using the Central Bank of Brasil's exchange rate on the first day trading
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Date | Company | Ticker | Amount - USD** | Foreign Investors´ Participation |
January | PDG | pdgr3 | 303.555.524 | 93% |
Rodobens | rdni3 | 211.556.604 | 67% | |
Camargo Corrêa | ccim3 | 245.681.736 | 56% | |
February | São Martinho | smto3 | 200.416.272 | 53% |
GVT | gvtt3 | 514.703.773 | 76% | |
Tecnisa | tcsa3 | 372.430.500 | 68% | |
Iguatemi | igta3 | 263.154.647 | 72% | |
March | Anhanguera Educ. | aedu11 | 244.979.200 | 77% |
JBS | jbss3 | 787.122.882 | 84% | |
April | Pine | pine3,pine4 | 252.656.700 | 90% |
Metalfrio | frio3 | 224.232.921 | 57% | |
Bematech | bema3 | 201.302.005 | 70% | |
Even | even3 | 224.719.101 | 53% | |
BR Malls | brml3 | 323.703.776 | 74% | |
Heringer | fher3 | 172.205.595 | 65% | |
JHSF | jhsf3 | 213.004.926 | 89% | |
CR2 | crde3 | 151.514.778 | 0% | |
Agra | agin3 | 387.210.591 | 67% | |
Cremer | crem3 | 271.739.655 | 80% | |
Wilson Sons*** | wson11 | 347.767.980 | 74% | |
May | Sofisa | sfsa | 244.924.264 | 76% |
Tarpon*** | tarp | 229.962.694 | 90% | |
June | Inpar S/A | inpr | 385.714.286 | 70% |
Parana | prbc | 274.196.891 | 89% | |
SLC Agricola | slce | 256.567.408 | 70% | |
Log-In | logn | 441.795.132 | 75% | |
EZTec | eztc | 280.904.566 | 68% | |
Cruzeiro Sul | czrs | 294.110.894 | 67% | |
Daycoval | dayc | 566.048.595 | 70% | |
Marfrig | mrfg | 528.761.658 | 68% | |
July | Tegma | tgma | 316.219.895 | 59% |
Indusval | idvl | 134.340.835 | 91% | |
Redecard | rdcd | 2.482.724.430 | 72% | |
Invest Tur | ivtt | 508.064.516 | 87% | |
Minerva | beef | 238.709.677 | 71% | |
Patagonia*** | bpat | 40.836.882 | 84% | |
MRV | mrve | 647.039.688 | 73% | |
Kroton | krot | 259.582.385 | 70% | |
Guarani | acgu | 360.961.864 | 52% | |
Triunfo Part | tpis | 278.139.232 | 82% | |
ABC Brasil | abcb | 327.338.710 | 74% | |
Springs | sgps | 343.193.717 | 37% | |
Providencia | prvi | 245.418.848 | 77% | |
Multiplan | Mult | 484.046.270 | 73% | |
GeneralShopp | gshp | 152.515.106 | 73% | |
Estacio Part | estc | 237.734.043 | 74% | |
August | Cosan Ltd.*** ¹ | czlt | 134.811.980 | 37% |
September | Satipel | sati | 221.795.915 | 74% |
October | Sul America | sula | 428.176.796 | 72% |
BicBanco | bicb | 453.881.809 | 85% | |
Trisul | tris | 182.475.718 | 91% | |
Tenda | tend | 333.149.171 | 66% | |
SEB | sebb | 227.900.552 | 80% | |
Marisa | mari | 278.021.978 | 64% | |
Agrenco*** | agen | 372.379.796 | 88% | |
Bovespa Hld | bovh | 3.733.108.449 | 78% | |
BR Brokers | bbrk | 397.218.750 | 98% | |
Amil | amil | 795.852.273 | 80% | |
Helbor | hbor | 143.086.394 | 56% | |
Laep*** | milk | 291.730.522 | 64% | |
November | Panamericano | bpnm | 397.969.318 | 67% |
BM&F | bmef | 3.361.627.483 | 77% | |
December | MPX Energia* | mpxe | 1.133.617.314 | 71% |
Tempo Part* | temp | 233.025.590 | 84% |
* Preliminary data, without closure notice until this moment.
*** Brazilian Depositary Receipts
1 data regarding only the Brazilian Offering
This information is calculated using the Central Bank of Brazil's exchange rate on the first trading day
In January, the total trading value was BRL 126.5 billion (or USD 71.3 billion), against BRL 113.4 billion (or USD 63.5 billion) in the previous month. The daily average was BRL 5.6 billion (or USD 3.4 billion) and the number of trades was 208,469. For comparison purposes, December registered 198,939 trades and BRL 6.3 billion (or USD 3.5 billion) as financial value daily traded.
The most active stocks in terms of trading value were:
- Petrobras PN (BRL 20.2 billion or USD 11.4 billion);
- Vale R Doce PNA (BRL 13.2 billion or USD 7.5 billion);
- Vale R Doce ON (BRL 4.3 billion or USD 2.4 billion);
- Petrobras ON (BRL 3.9 billion or USD 2.2 billion); and
- Bradesco PN (BRL 3.4 billion or USD 1.9 billion).

In January, the International Investors’ stake reached 35.20% of the total trading value, compared to 35.16% registered in December. Institutional Investors registered 30% (against 31%), followed by Individuals with 24% (against 22%); Financial Institutions, 9% (against 10%); Companies, 1.8%, (against 2.0%).

The Home Broker system reached the following performance in January:The Home Broker system reached the following performance in January:
- Overall record of daily average trading value, which registered BRL 1 billion
- Overall record of daily number of trades, that reached 120,278 (this figures considers all trades in which at least one side was done via home broker).
- Total traded value amounted to BRL 24.7 billion
- Over 3 million trades
- The average value per trade registered BRL 9.8 thousand
The After Market totalled 68,247 trades and BRL 913,151,436.28 as financial value this month.
For further information on Home Broker, click here.
Market CapitalizationIn January, BOVESPA’s market capitalization amounted to BRL 2.3 trillion (or USD 1.3 trillion) against BRL 2.5 trillion (or USD 1.4 trillion) in December.

The 157 companies which by the end of January were listed at BOVESPA’s Special Levels of Corporate Governance represented 55% of BOVESPA’s total market capitalization, 68% of the trading value and 72% of the number of trades in the cash market.
In January, Ideiasnet S.A. joined Novo Mercado.

The Ibovespa benchmark closed January down 6.8% at 59,490 points.
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The best performing stocks of the IBOVESPA in January were: | The worst performing stocks of the IBOVESPA in January were: | |||
Telemar PN (+32.94%); |
Lojas Renner ON (-23.33%); |
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Cosan ON (+32.16%); |
Gol PN (-22.42%); |
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Telemar NL PNA (+21.96%) |
Bradespar PN (-20.59%); |
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Telemar ON (+15.29%); and |
Light S/A ON (-18.71%); and |
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Trans Paulista PN (+14.34%) |
ALL Amer Lat UNT (-17.53%). |

In January, ITEL closed the month up (+8.8% at 1,331 points). The other indices closed the month down and performed as following: IEE (-7.0% at 16,089 points); IGC (-12.8% at 5,926 points); ITAG (-14.1% at 7,431 points); ISE (-10.3% at 1,804 points); INDX (-7.1% at 9,250 points); IBrX-50 (-8.8% at 8,892 points); IBrX-100 (-8.6% at 19,670 points); and IVBX-2 (-6.0% at 5,135 points).
Fixed IncomeIn January, 6 FDICs (Receivable Investment Funds) and 5 Corporate Bonds started to trade at BOVESPA Fix and SOMA Fix Markets. The trading value of BOVESPA’s fixed income markets turned over BRL 494,454,171.48 (against BRL 162,764,276.51 totalled in previous month). Out of this total, BRL 456,306,509.40 referred to FIDCs, BRL 28,331,996.30 to CRIs and BRL 9,815,665.78 to Corporate Bonds.

The Securities Lending Program of CBLC (BTC) registered a trading value of BRL 32.8 billion in January, against BRL 25.8 billion registered in December. In January, 63,394 trades were executed (against 47,809 in the previous month). These transactions had a total of 261 underlying securities (against 248 in December).
By the end of January Brazilian Clearing and Depository Corporation (CBLC) registered 466,830 active individual investor custody accounts, against 456,557 in December.
BOVESPA Popularization CampaignIn January, 85 new investment clubs have registered with BOVESPA, the highest number registered in a single month.
Since September 2002, the popularization campaign “BOVESPA Where You Are” has stimulated the creation of 2,132 investment clubs.
BOVESPA had a total of 2,236 clubs registered as of January 2008. According to the last available data (December/07), the investment clubs’ total assets amounted to BRL 14.8 billion, with 154,102 investors.