OREANDA-NEWS. August 20, 2012. BM&FBOVESPA announces July 2012 market performance. Check the highlights:

More than 300,000 agribusiness derivatives contracts traded

FIIs turn over BRL 242.71 million in 28,063 transactions in July

In July 2012, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 126.60 billion in 15,706,354 trades, with a daily average of BRL 6.02 billion.

In June, financial volume totaled BRL 163.21 billion, the total number of trades 16,113,514, and the daily average BRL 8.16 billion.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 59,029,459 contracts and BRL 3.74 trillion in volume in July, compared to 51,759,338 contracts and BRL 3.55 trillion in June. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of July 2012 with 35,695,804 positions, compared to 40,682,007 in June.