OREANDA-NEWS. In February 2013, the equities market’s financial volume totaled BRL 140.96 billion in 15,078,756 trades, with daily averages of BRL 7.83 billion and 837,709 trades.

In January, financial volume totaled BRL 154.23 billion, the total number of trades 16,635,362, the daily average financial volume BRL 7.34 billion and daily average number of trades 792,160.

Derivatives markets (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 64,633,757 contracts and BRL 4.63 trillion in volume in February, compared to 50,603,158 contracts and BRL 3.85 trillion in January. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of February 2013 with 36,262,253 positions, compared to 31,515,489 in January.