OREANDA-NEWS. February 09, 2011. BM&FBOVESPA announces January’s trading performance. The month’s highlights are record co-location trades and financial volume in the Bovespa Segment (equities) and a record number of securities lending transactions.

In January, the total number of securities lending transactions reached a record 98,352, compared to 92,405 transactions in August 2010 and 91,926 in December. There was also a record financial volume of BRL 59.05 billion in January from BRL 49.36 billion in December.

In January, BOVESPA market segment transactions carried out through Direct Market Access (DMA) via co-location registered a record financial volume of BRL 2,512,390,000.00 and a record 385,960 trades. The previous records were BRL 1,510,987.000.00 and 228,273 trades in December 2010.

In January 2011, equity markets (Bovespa segment) traded BRL 129.49 billion, in 9,304,931 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.47 billion and 9,304,931 trades, in comparison to December when total volume reached BRL 132.48 billion, in 9,091,400 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.3 billion and 432,924 trades.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 53,040,432 contracts and BRL 3.97 trillion in volume in January, compared to 62,099,275 contracts and BRL 4.43 trillion in December. The daily average of contracts traded in the derivatives markets in January was 2,525,735 contracts, in contrast to 2,957,108 in December. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of January with 31,451,156 positions, compared to 46,013,611 in December.