OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 March 2009 was announced, that over the week of February 24 – February 27, 2009, the RTS Index went up by 5.29% to reach 544.58 points (517.22 points as of February 20, 2009). Most of the positive impact on the Index dynamics was related to the growing prices for Surgutneftegas ordinary shares (SNGS) (plus 7.09 points), ordinary shares of OJSC "OC "Rosneft" (ROSN) (plus 5.98 points) and OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares of (LKOH) (plus 5.74 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 went up by 0.96% to reach 440.86 points (436.66 points as of February 20, 2009). Last week almost all the economy sectors represented on the Russian Stock Market closed in the green territory. The major positive contributor was the power industry sector, the corresponding index increased by 7.75%. Significant growth was registered in the oil & gas sector, with the corresponding index gaining 7.21%. The largest decline was reported by the financials sector. The RTSI – Financials decreased by 0.17%.

The total trading volume on RTS for the week February 24 – 27, 2009 equaled 1.2 billion dollars (41.8 billion roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were ordinary shares of "FGC UES", JSC (FEES) – USD 5.492 million, followed by Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) - USD 2.192 million and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) - USD 1.149. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 37.31%, 14.89% and 9.85% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of "FGC UES", JSC (FEES) – by 30.51% to USD 0.00385 followed by ordinary shares of "TSUM TH" (TZUM) – by 26.67% to USD 0.95 and ordinary shares of Mechel ОАО (MTLR) – by 16.67% to USD 4.2.

The week's top losers were ordinary shares of Synergy, Co. (SYNG) that fell in price by 26.67% to reach USD 2.75 followed by ordinary shares of PIK Group (PIKK) that lost 14.29% to close at USD 0.555 and ordinary shares of "VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation" (VSMO) that posted 10.0% loss at USD 18.0.

* 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 were taken by Troika Dialog, Renaissance Broker, and Deutsche Securities ZAO respectively.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 Market: 1 – Troika Dialog, 2 – OTKRITIE Brokerage house JSC, 3 – Zerich Capital Management IC OJSC.