OREANDA-NEWS. May 10, 2012. BM&FBOVESPA announces April 2012 market performance. Check the highlights:

Record average daily trading volume in BM&F segment.

Record financial volume for ETFs on BM&FBOVESPA.

In April 2012, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 146.62 billion in 14,667,906 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.33 billion and 733,395 trades.

In March, financial volume totaled BRL 154.08 billion, the total number of trades 16,150,473, and the daily averages BRL 7.00 billion and 734,112 trades respectively.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 70,327,592 contracts and BRL 4.35 trillion in volume in April, compared to 65.841.816 contracts and BRL 4.48 trillion in March. The average daily trading volume for contracts in April was a record 3,518,440, against the prior record of 3,482,030 of April 2011. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of April 2012 with 34,360,475 positions, compared to 31,932,186 in March.