OREANDA-NEWS. On 26 January 2009 was announced, that over the week of January 11 – January 16, 2009, the RTS Index went down by 10,31% to reach 566,77 points (631,89 points as of December 31, 2008). Most of the negative impact on the Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) (minus 13,21 points), Surgutneftegas ordinary shares (SNGS) (minus 12,15 points) and ordinary shares of OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" (GMKN) (minus 6,05 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 shed 7,26% to reach 508,41 points (548,20 points as of December 31, 2008). Last week most of the key economy sectors represented on the Russian Stock Market closed in the negative territory. The major loser was the power sector, the corresponding index shrank by 12,70%. Significant decline was registered in financials sector with the corresponding index losing 12,58%. The telecom sector showed the slightest drop. The RTSI – Telecom lost 2,04%.

The total trading volume on RTS for the week January 11 – 16, 2009 equaled 1,9 bln. dollars (61,6 bln. roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – USD 18,582 mln., followed by OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) - USD 17,289 mln. and Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) - USD 15,773 mln. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 27,01%, 25,13% and 22,92% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of JSC "SGC TGC-8" (TGKH) – by 20,0% to USD 0,0012, ordinary shares of OJSC "Magnit" (MGNT) – by 5,92% to USD 17,0 and ordinary shares of OJSC LSR Group (LSRG) – by 4,65% to USD 4,5.

The week's top losers were Surgutneftegas privileged shares (SNGSP), that fell in price by 24,0% to reach USD 0,19, ordinary shares of "FGC UES ", JSC (FEES) that closed 22,12% down at USD 0,00331 per share and ordinary shares of OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" (GMKN) that posted 22,05% loss at USD 49,5.

RTS Stock Market leading operators

The first three positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the last week took Troika Dialog, Renaissance Broker and Rye, Man and Gor respectively.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 Market: 1 – KIT Finance Ltd., 2 – SINARA INVEST Limited Liabiliti Company, 3 – Troika Dialog.