OREANDA-NEWS. October 11, 2011. BM&FBOVESPA announced September 2011 market performance. The highlights were:

Agribusiness derivatives registered with BM&FBOVESPA total BRL 6.92 billion, from BRL 5.63 billion in August.

ETF financial volume totals BRL 1.42 billion.

Commodity options market leaps from 41,561 contracts traded to 53,167.

In September 2011, the equity markets (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 131.437 billion, in 13,551,487 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.25 billion and 645,309 trades.

In August, financial volume totaled BRL 177.906 billion, the total number of trades 16,234,673, and the daily averages BRL 7.73 billion and 705,855 trades respectively.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 59,365,524 contracts and BRL 4.35 trillion in volume in September, compared to 78,606,873 contracts and BRL 5.23 trillion in August. The daily average of contracts traded in the derivatives markets in September was 2,826,930, in contrast to 3,417,690 in August. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of September with 36,620,797 positions, compared to 37,821,302 in August.