OREANDA-NEWS. October 15, 2012. BM&FBOVESPA announces September 2012 market performance. Check the highlights:

Record average daily financial volume and record average daily trading volume in the BOVESPA segment.

Agribusiness securities registered with BM&FBOVESPA total BRL 27.08 billion, from BRL 25.49 billion the previous month.

In September 2012, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 160.43 billion in 16,915,818 trades, with record daily averages of BRL 8.44 billion and 890,306 trades. The previous records were BRL 8.28 billion in February 2012 and 889,633 trades in May 2012.

In August, financial volume totaled BRL 164.89 billion, the total number of trades 18,259,374, the daily average financial volume BRL 7.16 billion and daily average number of trades 793,886.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 49,782,932 contracts and BRL 3.75 trillion in volume in September, compared to 60,486,696 contracts and BRL 4.06 trillion in August. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of September 2012 with 45,847,287 positions, compared to 39,785,832 in August.