OREANDA-NEWS. In April 2013, the equities market’s (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 180.97 billion in 20,781,632 trades, with daily averages of BRL 8.22 billion and 944,620 trades. In March, financial volume totaled BRL 148.27 billion, the total number of trades 18,232,464, the daily average financial volume BRL 7.41 billion and daily average number of trades 911,623.

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 80,471,467 contracts and BRL 6.30 trillion in volume in April, compared to 63,288,358 contracts and BRL 4.86 trillion in March. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of April 2013 with 39,045,609 positions, compared to 42,317,995 in March.