OREANDA-NEWS. BM&FBOVESPA published the details of May’s transactions. The highlight was real estate funds, which had financial volume of BRL 4.06 billion and 382,969 transactions in the first five months of the year, surpassing all their trading in 2012.

In May 2013, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 162.35 billion in 19,733,908 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.73 billion and 939,710 trades. In April, financial volume totaled BRL 180.97 billion, the total number of trades 20,781.632, the daily average financial volume BRL 8.22 billion and daily average number of trades 944,620.

The most traded stocks in May were: Vale PNA, with BRL 13.3 billion; PETROBRAS PN with BRL 11.5 billion; ITAUUNIBANCO PN, with BRL 6.68 billion; OGX PETROLEO ON with BRL 6.46 billion; and BRADESCO PN, with BRL 5.18 billion.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment totaled 83,570,611 contracts and BRL 6.75 trillion in volume in May, compared to 80,471,467 contracts and BRL 6.30 trillion in April. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of May 2013 with 45,105,016 positions, compared to 39,045,609 in April