OREANDA-NEWS. June 18, 2012. In May 2012, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 163.62 billion in a record 19,571,917 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.43 billion and 889,633 trades.

In April, financial volume totaled BRL 146.62 billion, the total number of trades 14,667,906 (the previous record was 16,234,673 trades in March 2011), and the daily averages BRL 7.33 billion and 733,395 trades respectively.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 85,784,768 contracts and BRL 5.4 trillion in volume in May, compared to 70,327,592 contracts and BRL 4.35 trillion in April.

Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of May 2012 with 39,415,401 positions, compared to 34,360,475 in April.