OREANDA-NEWS. Once more Russian stock market opened its day going upwards on October 15. Positive external background supported rising optimism of investors, pushing RTS over its new highest value, Veles Capital information department reports. Throughout day shares of oil & gas sector kept on growing. Probable reason - next hike of oil prices, penetrating record 85 USD per barrel. On top of that, market could have also been supported by shares of Gazprom, which rose after company's report has been published, proving higher than market's general anticipations. One should also point out stocks of Russian potassium producers - Uralkaly and Silvinit.

It seems as if Uralkaly's successful SPO propelled the whole sector of the market. Fall continued by quotes of Norilsk Nickel, backed by uncertainties over split of assets between primary holders of the company. RTS rose +0.64% yesterday, reaching 2176.9 points. Growth of indicator was supported by quotes of: Sberbank (+1.26%), Gazprom (+1.02%) and Rosneft (+1.58%). Opposite side of trading grounds was taken by shares of: Norilsk Nickel (-1.04%), UES (-1.42%) and Severstal (-2.42%). Turnover of Monday.s RTS formed 83.7 mn USD. Top turnover winners of yesterday: shares of Urlakaly (35.9 mn USD), given value shows that company.s SPO was rather successful. Second and third places of top three were taken by UES (14.5 mn USD) and Sberbank (11 mn USD). Considering negative dynamics coming off foreign stock markets and local overheating of Russian market of shares, Veles Capital's analysts cannot exclude that today quotes of liquid securities may go down. But, taking into account record oil prices, a fall is unlikely to be strong, especially in the oil & gas sector.