OREANDA-NEWS. Bovespa Segment

In February 2014 the equities market's (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 131.54 billion against BRL 136.95 billion in January. Daily average was BRL 6.57 billion against BRL 6.22 billion in the previous month. Total number of trades in February was 17,943,360 against 17,612,258 in January. Daily average number of trades was 897,168 against 800,557 in January.

Equities

The most traded stocks in February were: PETROBRAS PN, with BRL 8.56 billion; VALE PNA, with BRL 8.35 billion; ITAUUNIBANCO PN, with BRL 6.98 billion; BRADESCO PN, with BRL 4.22 billion; and VALE ON, with BRL 3.37 billion.

Indexes

The Ibovespa ended February at 47,094 points, down 1.14% from the previous month.

The best performing stocks for the Ibovespa in February were: KROTON ON (+18.49%); BR MALLS PAR ON (+18.16%); ESTACIO PART ON (+18.12%); GOL PN (+15.42%); and PORTO SEGURO ON (+15.38%). The main losses were: USIMINAS PNA (-17.90%); GERDAU MET PN (-16.39%); GERDAU PN (-15.80%); OI PN (-13.91%); and LIGHT S/A ON (-13.48%).

Other indexes

All of the other BOVESPA segment stock-exchange indexes ended February as follows:

IBRA (-0.28%, at 1,818 points);

IBXL (-0.14%, at 7,971 points);

IBXX (-0.32% at 19,497 points);

ICO2 (1.68% at 1,084 points);

ICON (1.58%, at 2,229 points);

IDIV (-2.20% at 3,089 points);

IEEX (-8.53%, at 23,058 points);

IFIX (3.77%, at 1,330 points);

IFNC (3.83% at 3,971 points);

IGCT (0.35% at 1,969 points);

IGCX (0.35% at 7,199 points);

IGNM (0.56%, at 1,542 points);

IMAT (-9.98%, at 1,645 points);

IMOB (3.03% at 632 points);

INDX (-2.91% at 11,165 points);

ISEE (-2.13% at 2,261 points);

ITAG (0.82%, at 9,615 points);

IVBX (-1.79% at 6,671 points);

MLCX (-0.19%, at 883 points);

SMLL (-0.99%, at 1,186 points);

UTIL (-4.90%, at 2,390 points);

BDRX (-0.25%, at 2,225 points).

Market Value

Market capitalization of the 370 companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA in February was BRL 2.20 trillion compared to BRL 2.21 trillion for the 361 companies listed in January.

Special Corporate Governance Levels

At the end of February, the 187 companies that are part of BM&FBOVESPA's special corporate governance levels represented 68.83% of market capitalization, 75.50% of financial volume and 82.21% of trades in the cash market. At the end of January, there were 187 companies representing 68.82% of market capitalization, 82.59% of financial volume and 86.11% of cash market trades.

Market Participation

The cash market accounted for 96.3% of total financial volume in February, followed by the options market with 2.5%; and by the forward market, with 1.2%. The After Market traded BRL 872.46 million, with 66,106 trades against BRL 947.6 million and 59,882 trades in the previous month.

Payouts to Shareholders

In February, the financial volume from Corporate Actions managed by BM&FBOVESPA totaled BRL 3.26 billion, of which BRL 676 million in dividends and BRL 2.34 billion in interest on shareholders' equity paid to shareholders that use BM&FBOVESPA's Custody service. In January, the amount totaled BRL 3.43 billion, of which BRL 487.27 million in dividends and BRL 706.46 million in interest on shareholders' equity.

Investor Participation

In February foreign investors maintained their lead in financial volume, at 50.42% of the total against 46.86% in January. Institutional investors came next, with 29.09% against 32.94%; individual investors had 13.73% compared to 13.24%; financial institutions had 5.38% against 5.37%; and companies had 1.37% compared to 1.44% in the previous month.

Individual Investors

BM&FBOVESPA ended February with 582,763 individual investor stock exchange accounts in custody, compared to 586,120 in January.

Foreign Investment

In 2014, the financial volume traded by foreign investors in the stock market to February was a positive BRL 433.8 million, on the BM&FBOVESPA secondary market.

In February, the financial volume traded by foreign investors in the stock market was a positive BRL 1.3 billion, which is the net balance between stock sales of BRL 65.5 billion and stock purchases of BRL 66.8 billion.

ETFs

The financial volume registered in February by the 15 BM&FBOVESPA Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) reached BRL 1.70 billion, from 109,880 trades against BRL 1.46 billion and 74,707 trades in January. In February, the ETF with the highest financial volume was ETF BOVA11, with BRL 1.58 billion compared to BRL 1.35 billion in the previous month.

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Securities Lending

In February, the total number of securities lending transactions reached 144,925 against 153,579 in January. Financial volume was BRL 77.17 billion against BRL 77.72 billion in the previous month.

Corporate securities

In February, the trading volume for the secondary market for corporate securities totaled BRL 12.42 million against BRL 15.60 million in January. Of the total volume, BRL 9.54 million were from debentures and BRL 2.88 million from Mortgage Backed Securities (CRI).

Real Estate Funds

In February, Real Estate Funds (FIIs) turned over BRL 582.51 million in 105,305 transactions compared to BRL 523.92 million and 93,387 transaction in January. There were 117 of these funds registered at the end of the month for trading.