Thursday March 21 2013

News Source: Global Exchanges

Focus: Holidays and Opening Hours and suspensions

Type: General




As of Wednesday March 20, 2013, new rules come into effect for options trading in the BOVESPA segment. The new rules bring in the following changes:

– On the expiration date of options, trading will be prohibited in the expiring series, with only the exercise of holder positions allowed.

– The other change is that the last trading day for an option will be the business day immediately prior to its expiration.

The trading hours valid as of Wednesday (20) are available in the Rules section of the BMF&BOVSEPA website.

Click on the above link for more details.