OREANDA-NEWS. March 14, 2011. BM&FBOVESPA is announcing new trading hours for the equity and derivative markets starting on March 14, due to the BM&FBOVESPA has new trading hours as of March 14.

As of March 14, regular hours for the continuous trading session on the Bovespa segment are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an after-market session from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. On the BM&F segment, the new trading hours for stock index contracts are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The following closing times for derivatives trading are also changing: trading in Arabica Coffee contracts closes at 2:35 p.m. (including rollover transactions), Soybeans at 2:45 p.m. and Cash-Settled Soybeans at 3 p.m. All these changes also come into force on March 14.