OREANDA-NEWS. March 22, 2011. BM&FBOVESPA announces that the exercise of options contracts generated BRL 2.38 billion in the BOVESPA segment (equities). Of this financial volume, BRL 2.05 billion was in call options and BRL 334.9 million was in put options.

The stock options with the largest volume during the exercise were:

PETR PN at BRL 27.83 per stock generated BRLUSD  361.8 million in call options;

PETR PN at BRL  25.83 per stock generated BRLUSD  225.7 million in call options;

VALEPNA at BRL 46.90 per stock generated BRLUSD  181.2 million in call options;

VALEPNA at BRL 45.26 per stock generated BRLUSD  152.4 million in call options; and

OGXP ON at BRL 18.00 per stock generated BRLUSD  140.6 million in call options.