01/08/2015
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BM&FBOVESPA has published its 2014 market performance. The highlights for the year were: record daily averages and the total number of trades in the equity market; and a record number of contracts traded in the year and the financial volume in the futures market.

Total volume in BOVESPA segment reached 228,100,922 trades, from 220,550,582 in 2013; and average daily volume was 919,762, surpassing the 889,318 of 2013.

Ibovespa ended 2014 down 2.91% at 50,007 points. The top performers in 2014 were: KROTON ON (+63.76); MARFRIG ON (+52.50%); GOL PN (+44.85%); CETIP ON (+41.02%); and LOJAS AMERICANAS PN (+38.08%). The worst performers in 2014 were: OI PN (-76.02%); ROSSI RESID ON (-66.76%); USIMINAS PNA (-64.46%); SID NACIONAL (-60.06%); and PDGF REALT ON (-52.49%).

Market capitalization of the 363 stocks listed on BM&FBOVESPA reached BRL 2.24 trillion at the end of 2014, compared with BRL 2.41 trillion for 363 stocks at the end of 2013. At the end of 2014, the 184 companies listed in BM&FBOVESPA's special corporate governance segments represented 69.28% of total market cap, 74.64% of total trading value, and 82.67% of the total volume traded in the cash market, compared with 187 companies, 68.76%, 80.07% and 87.34% respectively at the end of 2013.

This year, foreign investors led trading in the BOVESPA segment accounting for 51.2% of financial volume, compared to 43.7% in 2013. They were followed by institutional investors with 28.9%, compared to 32.8% in 2013. Individual investors accounted for 13.7%, compared to 15.2% during the previous year. Financial institutions accounted for 5.1%, compared to 7.4% in 2013, and companies accounted for 1%, unchanged from the previous year. The net flow of foreign investment into the Brazilian stock market was a positive BRL20.34 billion. This was the result of BRL915.54 billion in stock offerings in Brazil, and the positive balance of BRL935.88 billion on the BM&FBOVESPA secondary market.

The BM&F segment had a total of 590,242,458, against the 705,173,503 of 2013. Financial volume in 2014 totaled BRL73.21 trillion, compared to a total of BRL54.92 trillion in 2013. Open interest ended the last trading day of December with 39,117,766 positions, compared to 43,378,762 in 2013.

In 2014, the interest rate futures (DI) traded a record 286,125,664 contracts, compared to 394,055,420 in 2013. US Dollar futures ended the year with 82,365,540 contracts traded, compared to 83,426,499 in 2013. Ibovespa futures traded 20,496,231 contracts in 2014, compared to 20,443,962 during the previous year.

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