OREANDA-NEWS. On 28 July 2008 was announced, that over the week of July 14th – 18th, 2008, the RTS Index went down by 1,47% to reach 2135,38 points (2167,18 points as of July 11th, 2008). Most of the negative impact on the Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) (minus 14,56 points), JSC Uralkali ordinary shares (URKA) (minus 6,26 points) and NLMK ordinary shares (NLMK) (minus 4,77 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 shed 2,51% to reach 2412,62 points (2474,80 points as of July 11th, 2008). Last week all the key sectors represented on the Russian stock market showed a negative trend. The Industrial sector reported the largest drop: the RTS Index - Industrial shrank by 3,43%, followed by the Retail & Consumer sector: the corresponding Sectoral Index went down by 2,73%. The slightest decline was registered in the Financials, the corresponding RTS Sectoral Index dropped 0,56% only.

The total trading volume on RTS for the week July 14th – 18th, 2008 equaled 6,4 bln dollars (149,4 bln roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – USD 65,467 mln., Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 45,419 mln. and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – USD 40,389 mln. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 26,15%, 18,14% and 16,13% accordingly.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of the Moscow Integrated Electricity Distribution Company (MSRS) – by 10,92% to USD 0,0965, ordinary shares of JSC VTB Bank (VTBR) – by 7,14% to USD 0,00375 and ordinary shares of "VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation" (VSMO) – by 6,57% to USD 146,00.

The week's top losers were URSA Bank privileged shares (URSAP), that fell in price by 17,39% to reach USD 0,95, ordinary shares of RAZGULAY Group OJSC (GRAZ) that closed 15,63% down at USD 6,75 per share and ordinary hares of OJSC "Cherkizovo Group" (GCHE) that posted 13,64% loss at USD 19,00.

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

RTS Stock market leading operators

The first three positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the last week took Troika Dialog, Deutsche Securities ZAO and UBS Securities CJSC respectively.

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