OREANDA-NEWS. BM&FBOVESPA announces March 2013 market performance. Check the highlights:

BOVESPA segment reaches record daily average of 911,623 trades

Real Estate Funds pass the 100,000 investors milestone

Securities lending has a monthly financial volume record of BRL 89.44 billion

ETFs grow 14% in financial volume and 21% in number of transactions

In March 2013, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 148.27 billion in 18,232,464 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.41 billion and 911,623 trades.

In February, financial volume totaled BRL 140.96 billion, the total number of trades 15,078,756, the daily average financial volume BRL 7.83 billion and daily average number of trades 837,709.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 63,288,358 contracts and BRL 4.86 trillion in volume in March, compared to 64,633,757 contracts and BRL 4.63 trillion in February. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of March 2013 with 42,317,995 positions, compared to 36,262,253 in February.