OREANDA-NEWS. In August 2013, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled a record BRL 187.09 billion in a record 21,736,691 trades, with daily averages of BRL 8.50 billion and 988,031 trades. In July, financial volume totaled BRL 132.69 billion, the total number of trades 18,355,701, the daily average financial volume BRL 6.03 billion and daily average number of trades 834,350.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 61,985,249 contracts and BRL 5.01 trillion in volume in August, compared to 53,496,970 contracts and BRL 3.92 trillion in July. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of August 2013 with 38,716,402 positions, compared to 38,420,296 in July.

The financial volume registered in August by the 15 BM&FBOVESPA Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) reached BRL 2.84 billion in a record 134,294 trades, from BRL 2.26 billion and 99,835 the previous month. The BOVA11 ETF, which tracks Ibovespa, had a financial volume of BRL 2.60 billion and 124,720 trades from BRL 2.09 billion and 90,585 the previous month.