OREANDA-NEWS. September 13, 2011. The financial volume registered in August by the eight BM&FBOVESPA Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) reached BRL 1.4 billion in 78,809 trades, from BRL 667.75 million and 31,997 the previous month. In August the ETF with the highest financial volume was BOVA11 with BRL 1.33 billion and 75,231 transactions.

In August 2011, the equity markets (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled a record BRL 177.906 billion, in a record 16,234,673 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.73 billion and a record 705,855 trades. This was in comparison to the prior total volume record of BRL 155.55 billion in October 2010, the prior total trades record of 11,172,707 in May 2011 and the prior daily average trades record of 544,88 in February 2011.

In July 2011 financial volume totaled BRL 119.63 billion, the total number of trades 11,016,993, and the daily averages BRL 5.69 billion and 524,619 trades respectively.

The most traded stocks in August were: Vale PNA, with BRL 18 billion; Petrobras PN with BRL 12.33 billion; Itauunibanco PN, with BRL 8.72 billion, OGX Petroleo ON, with BRL 6.9 billion; and Vale ON, with BRL 5.71 billion.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 78,606,873 contracts and BRL 5.23 trillion in volume in August, compared to 44,199,125 contracts and BRL 3.35 trillion in July. The daily average of contracts traded in the derivatives markets in August was 3,417,690, in contrast to 2,104,720 in July. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of August with 37,821,302 positions, compared to 30,716,596 in July.

The Ibovespa ended August at 56,495 points, down 3.95%

The best performing stocks were: AmBev PN (+20.88%); MRV ON (+16.52%); Hypermarcas ON (+11.91%); B2W Varejo ON (+10.92%); and TAM PN (+10.74%). The worst performing stocks were: Marfrig ON (-49.41%); Eletropaulo PN (-17.97%); ALL ON (-17.59%); Fibria ON (-15.99%); and Eletrobras ON (-13.02%).

All of the other BOVESPA segment stock-exchange indexes ended August as follows: IBrX-50 (-4.62% at 7,964 points); IBrX-100 (-4.16% at 18,884 points); ISE (-3.63% at 1,912 points); Itel (-0.01% at 1,731 points); IEE (-4.30% at 28,195 points); INDX (+3.49% at 9,268 points); IVBX-2 (-1.41% at 5,675 points); IGC (-3.56% at 6,478 points); Itag (-3.21% at 8,252 points); Small Cap (-2.61% at 1,251 points); MidLarge Cap (-4.08% at 833 points); ICON (+4.74% at 1,596 points); IMOB (+0.31% at 855 points); IFNC (-2.99% at 3,141 points); ICO2 (-2.46% at 958 points); IGCT (-4.31% at 1,810 points); UTIL (-3.96% at 2,493 points); IDIV (+3.31% at 2,627 points); IMAT (-3.52% at 1,695 points); and IBRA (-4.10% at 1,734 points).

The net flow of foreign investment into the Brazilian stock market in 2011 through August reached BRL 7,686,809,062.40, which is the combined result of the amount of BRL 7,797,276,175.40 in acquisitions carried out by foreign investors in stock offerings (of which BRL 6.2 billion offered in Brazil) and the negative balance of BRL 110,467,113.00 in direct trading at BM&FBOVESPA.

Foreign Investment

In July, the financial volume traded by foreign investors in the stock market was a negative BRL 399,314,054.00, which is the net balance between stock sales of BRL 65,092,884,463.00 and stock purchases of BRL 64,693,570,409.00.

The foreign investor participation in stock offerings, including IPOs, represented 58.1% of the total BRL 13,417,556,898.50 in transactions related to the publication of the closing announcement dates ending on September 2, 2011, pursuant to information available on the Exchange’s website, under the media section.

Investment Clubs

BM&FBOVESPA ended August with 2,926 investment clubs and 20 new registrations. Total liquid assets reached BRL 9.41 billion and the number of participants reached 122,360, according to the latest available data.

Mini Contracts

The derivatives market for mini contracts traded 4,163,031 contracts in August, compared to 2,277,364 in July. Of this total, the futures market for Ibovespa mini contracts traded 3,858,463, compared to 2,102,618 contracts in the previous month. Mini U.S. dollar futures traded 303,044 contracts, compared to 173,359 in July. Mini futures contracts ended July with 38,741 open interest contracts, compared to 58,665 in the previous month

Spot Gold

The spot gold market (250 grams) traded, in August, 2,656 contracts, compared to 2,492 contracts in July. Spot gold market volume totaled BRL 61.54 million, compared to BRL 50.47 million in the previous month.

Individual Investors

BM&FBOVESPA ended August with 152,954 individual investor stock exchange accounts in custody, compared to 148,310 accounts in July.