Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange trading volume through August totaled 44.94m. During the same period last year, volume was 26.02m contracts. The markets with the best performance in August were Bovespa Index, dollar, and interest rate futures. Bovespa Index traded 3.48m contracts, in comparison to 1.63m contracts traded in August 2006. Dollar futures, which last August traded 4.65m contracts, this August, registered 9.04m contracts. Singapore Commodity Exchange set a new open interest record in ribbed smoked sheet contract on 21 September of 37,740 contracts surpassing the previous record 37,520 contracts set 31 July.
FORTS derivatives market saw a new trading volume record of RTS Index futures on 19 September. Trading volume made up 223,375 contracts, or 23bn rubles.The previous record in trading volume of futures contracts on RTS Index was registered on 21 August and made up 21.8bn rubles.
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