OREANDA-NEWS. In October 2013, the equities market's (BOVESPA segment) financial volume totaled BRL 152.59 billion in 18,850,774 trades, with daily averages of BRL 6.63 billion and 819,599 trades. In September, financial volume totaled BRL 150.34 billion, the total number of trades 18,412,454, daily average financial volume BRL 7.15 billion and daily average number of trades 876,784.

The most traded stocks in October were: PETROBRAS PN with BRL 12.71 billion; Vale PNA, with BRL 11.54 billion; ITAUUNIBANCO PN, with BRL 7.01 billion; BRADESCO PN, with BRL 4.87 billion; and VALE ON with BRL 4.44 billion.

The Ibovespa ended October at 54,256 points, up 3.66% from the previous month. The best performing stocks for the Ibovespa in October were SID NACIONAL ON (+28.86%), B2W DIGITAL ON (+18.21%), ELETROPAULO PN (+16.96%), PETROBRAS ON (+15.21%) and BRASIL ON (+15.09%). The main losses were: MMX MINER ON (-45.16%), OGX PETROLEO ON (-38.10%), MARFRIG ON (-24.79%), PDG REALTY ON (-17.48%) and GAFISA ON (-15.36%).

Derivatives markets in the BM&F segment (including financial and commodities derivatives) totaled 48,331,275 contracts and BRL 3.68 trillion in volume in October, compared to 45,520,820 contracts and BRL 3.72 trillion in September. Open interest contracts ended the last trading day of October 2013 with 39,297,499 positions, compared to 39,354,902 in September.

In October, interest rate futures (ID) traded 23,616,174 contracts, in contrast to 24,588,346 in September. US Dollar futures ended the month of October with 6,068,525 contracts, compared to 6,934,490 in the previous month. Ibovespa futures traded 1,585,595 contracts, compared to 1,589,515 in September.