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In January 2021, the value of orders in financial instruments received by financial intermediaries and registered at the CMVM amounted to €10,395.4 million, a 39.7% increase apropos December. Since the beginning of the year, this benchmark decreased by 10.6% over the same period of last year.
The monthly value fell for all segments. In financial instruments for public and private debt, it increased 47% and 81%, up to €6,011.2 million and €1,908.2 million, respectively and 8% up to €1961.8 million for shares.
BCP had the largest market share transactions (20.7%), followed by Banco BIG (14.7%) and Banco BPI (9.5%). In public and private debt, the largest stake was held by BNP Paribas (58.1%), followed by Banco LJ Carregosa (19.7%) and Novo Banco (13.8%).
The value of orders on derivative financial instruments increased by 16.5% over the previous month up to €14,439.0 million, and the number of traded contracts increased by 35.1%. CFDs were the most traded financial instrument in the derivatives market (46.8% of the total amount), with transactions decreasing by 47.9% apropos December. Futures transactions were down by 61.5%.
During the same period, the value of orders of residents registered a monthly upturn of 24.0% and non-residents rose by 51.9%.
Regarding market execution, 47.4% of orders were executed in international regulated markets, 6.7% in national markets, 16.9% out of the market and 29.1% were internalised.
The USA, France and Spain and were the top three destinations for orders placed on shares outside Portugal, while The Netherlands, France and the UK were the main destinations for orders on debt securities.
This news item was originally published by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM PT). For more information, please see the Source Link.
