OREANDA-NEWS. March 10, 2011. BM&FBOVESPA announces February’s trading performance. The month’s highlights are record total and daily average number of trades in the Bovespa segment, record co-location trading in the Bovespa segment, record number of securities lending transactions and record volume of hydrous ethanol contracts traded.

In February 2011, equity markets (Bovespa segment) traded BRL 145.67 billion, in a record 10,897,755 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.28 billion and a record 544,888 trades (the previous record was 511,041 in October 2010), in comparison to January when total volume reached BRL 129.49 billion, in 9,304,931 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.47 billion and 465,247 trades.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 56,375,869 contracts and BRL 3.39 trillion in volume in February, compared to 53,040,432 contracts and BRL 3.97 trillion in January. The daily average of contracts traded in the derivatives markets in February was 2,818,793 contracts, in contrast to 2,525,735 in January. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of February with 38,251,129 positions, compared to 31,451,156 in January.