Investments in the Direct Treasury amount to R$ 4.31 billion in May

Sales of Treasury Direct securities surpassed redemptions by R$1.757 billion in May this year. According to data released this Tuesday (27), in Brasília, by the National Treasury, securities sales reached BRL 4.314 billion, and redemptions totaled BRL 2.556 billion, of which BRL 2.442 billion related to public bond repurchases and R$ $114.1 million for maturities, when the term of the bond expires and the government needs to repay the investor with interest.

The securities most sought after by investors were those corrected by the Selic, basic interest rate, which corresponded to 61.7% of the total. Inflation-linked securities accounted for 25% of sales, while fixed-rate securities – with interest defined at the time of issuance – accounted for 13.3%.

The total Treasury Direct stock reached R$ 116.1 billion at the end of May, with an increase of 2.5% in comparison with the previous month (R$ 113.3 billion) and of 26.7% in relation to May last year (R$ 91.7 billion).

Investors

As for the number of investors, 311,827 new participants registered for the program last month. The number of investors reached 24,333,855, up 28.4% over the last 12 months. The total number of active investors – with open operations – reached 2,210,657, an increase of 11.9% in 12 months. In the month, there was an increase of 33,392 active investors.

The demand for Treasury Direct by small investors can be seen in the considerable number of sales of up to R$5,000, which corresponded to 81.8% of the total of 624,762 operations carried out in May. Investments of up to R$ 1,000 alone accounted for 59.2%. The average value per operation was R$ 6,905.58.

Investors have preferred medium-term bonds. Sales of bonds with terms from one to five years represented 36.4% and those with terms from five to ten years, 46.5% of the total. Bonds with terms of more than ten years accounted for 17.1% of sales.

The complete balance sheet of the Direct Treasury is available on the National Treasury on the Internet.

source of funds

The Direct Treasury was created in January 2002 to popularize the application and allow individuals to purchase public securities directly from the National Treasury, over the Internet, without the intermediation of financial agents. The investor only needs to pay a fee to the broker responsible for the custody of the securities.

More information can be obtained from the Treasury Direct website.

The sale of securities is one of the ways the government has to raise funds to pay debts and honor commitments. In exchange, the National Treasury undertakes to return the amount with an additional fee that may vary according to the Selic rate, inflation rates, the exchange rate or a rate defined in advance in the case of fixed-rate securities.