OREANDA-NEWS. On 04 April 2008 was announced, that During the week of March 24th – 28th, 2008 RTS Index is up by 4,31% and reached 2049,40 (1964,65 as of March 21st, 2008). Leaders of positive impact on RTS Index became: JSC "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (41,78 points), OJSC "OC "Rosneft" ordinary shares (ROSN) (15,85 points) and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – (15,45 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 – is down by 0,54% to 2463,47 (2476,80 as of March 21st, 2008). Last week only Oil & Gas sector demonstrated a significant rise: RTS Index – Oil & Gas is up by 7,73%. A decline was registered in Electric Utilities and Financials: RTS Index – Electric Utilities is down by 2,76% and RTS Index – Financials went down by 0,65%.Index

For the week of March 24th – 28th the total trading volume on RTS equaled 6,3 bln. dollars (150,2 bln. rubles*), including all types of trades.

The top sellers of the week were JSC "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – \\$60,350 mln., Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) - \\$43,688 mln., followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – \\$36,238 mln. The share of each security in the trading volume made up 23,66%, 17,13% and 14,21% accordingly.

The top gainers of the week were JSC Uralkali ordinary shares (URKA) that went up by 14,29% and reached \\$8,40, PJSC "Belon" ordinary shares (BLNG) that gained 13,64% and reached \\$125,00 and JSC "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) that were up by 13,48% and reached \\$84,20.

The top losers of the week were ordinary shares of Southern Kuzbass Coal Company JSC (UKUZ) that fell in price by 12,38% and reached \\$92,00, ordinary shares of Mechel JSC (MTLR) that went down by 10,19% and reached \\$35,25 and ordinary shares ordinary shares of Silvinit (SILV) that shed 8,7% and reached \\$1050,00.

* The data is received by conversion of daily dollar turnovers into rubles

RTS Stock market leading operators

The best sellers on the RTS Classic market last week were: Troika Dialog, the second place is taken by UBS Securities, followed by Deutsche Securities ZAO on the third place.

The first 3 positions on T+O market: 1 - Universal Investment Company Partner Ltd., 2 - Brokercreditservice Ltd., 3 - Troika Dialog.