OREANDA-NEWS. February 20, 2012. BM&FBOVESPA informs you that the special trading hours on February 22, Ash Wednesday, that date will be as follows:

Equities

Regular hours – Continuous session from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

After-Market - from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Options Exercise

from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – stock options exercise

from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – index options exercise

Derivatives

from 12:55 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – pre-opening;

from 1:00 p.m., trading with the closing times for each of the markets maintained as on any other day.

In the specific cases of structured transactions with forward points on U.S. Dollar (positions opened on T+0) and Ibovespa Futures, the trading hours will be as follows:

Contract

Ticker

Regular Hours

 

 

Opening

Closing

Forward Points on U.S. Dollar

FUT FRP0

1:00 p.m

1:45 p.m.

Forward Points on Ibovespa

FUT FWI

1:00 p.m

1:45 p.m.

There will be no opening call for volatility transactions (VTC, VID, VOI and VTF). There will only be the VOI volatility call at 3:30 p.m. and the VCA volatility call at 4:30 p.m.

Trading in the spot FX market shall follow its usual timetable, starting at 9:00 a.m. for contracts with T+0 (USDP0000), T+1 (USDP0001) and T+2 (USDP0002) settlement.

Fixed Income

SISBEX – continuous trading from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

BOVESPA FIX and SOMA FIX – continuous trading from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.