OREANDA-NEWS. December 8, 2011. BM&FBOVESPA announced November 2011 market performance. ETFs, securities lending, agribusiness securities, agribusiness commodity futures, and options on agribusiness commodity futures are the November highlights.

Record number of trades and financial volumes for ETFs: The financial volume registered in November by the eight BM&FBOVESPA Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) reached BRL 1.45 billion in a record 86,037 trades, from BRL 1.37 billion and 72,352 the previous month. In November the ETF with the highest financial volume was BOVA11 with BRL 1.37 billion and 82,402 transactions.

Record securities lending volume at BRL 67.3 billion: In November, the total number of securities lending transactions reached 122,983, compared to 121,132 in October. Financial volume was a record BRL 67.30 billion in November from BRL 64.64 billion the previous month.

Agribusiness derivatives registered with BM&FBOVESPA total BRL 8.15 billion, from BRL 7.44 billion in November: In November, the BM&FBOVESPA agribusiness derivatives market (including futures and options) totaled 245,561 contracts traded, compared to 168,521 in October. Agribusiness markets totaled 133,410 open interest contracts, in contrast to 127,691 in the previous month. Options on commodity futures totaled 50,755 contracts in November, against 29,357 the previous month.

Live cattle futures and options totaled 160,824 contracts traded in November, compared to 85,256 in October. Corn futures and options totaled 42,279 contracts traded, compared to 31,584 in October. Arabica coffee ended November with 28,791 contracts, compared to 40,586 in October. Hydrous ethanol futures totaled 7,045 contracts, compared to 5,429 in October. Soybean derivatives totaled 6,622 contracts traded in November, against 5,666 the previous month.

Options on agribusiness commodity futures have 245,561 contracts traded in November, from 168,521 in November

In November 2011, the equity markets (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 118.72 billion in 12,284,986 trades and daily averages of BRL 5.93 billion and 614,249 trades.

In October, financial volume totaled BRL 142.33 billion, the total number of trades 13,645,172, and the daily averages BRL 7.11 billion and 682,259 trades respectively.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 54,301,136 contracts and BRL 3.87 trillion in volume in November, compared to 52,048,047 contracts and BRL 3.92 trillion in October. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of November with 37,001,711 positions, compared to 32,515,445 in October.