OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Exchange (ticker: MOEX) announces trading volumes for April 2016. Total trading volumes increased by 24.1% YoY to RUB 68.6 trln.

The Derivatives Market and Money Market posted the strongest growth, with volumes increasing 67.2% and 40.3% YoY, respectively. The Bond Market rose 29.4% YoY, while the Equity Market added 6.4%.

Equity & Bond Market

Secondary market turnover in stocks, RDRs and investment fund units was RUB 969.6 bln (April 2015: RUB 911.2 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 46.2 bln in April 2016 (April 2015: RUB 41.4 bln).

Secondary corporate, regional and sovereign bond turnover rose 29.4% to RUB 961.0 bln (April 2015: RUB 742.3 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 45.8 bln (April 2015: RUB 33.7 bln).

A total of 37 new bond issues with a combined value of RUB 426.8 bln were placed in April.

Derivatives Market

Derivatives Market volumes increased by 67.2% and amounted to RUB 10.6 trln (April 2015: RUB 6.3 trln), or 179.7 mln contracts (April 2015: 129.1 mln contracts), of which 173.5 mln contracts were futures and 6.2 mln contracts were options.

Open interest at the end of the month was RUB 640.4 bln (April 2015: RUB 363.4 bln).

FX Market

FX Market turnover rose 6.5% to RUB 27.3 trln (April 2015: RUB 25.7 trln), including spot trades of RUB 9.9 trln and swap trades of RUB 17.5 trln.

The FX Market's average daily turnover was RUB 1,302.3 bln (USD 19.5 bln) compared to RUB 1,166.8 bln in April 2015.

Money Market

Money Market turnover increased by 40.3% YoY and totalled RUB 24.5 trln (April 2015: RUB 17.5 trln). The average daily turnover was RUB 1,167.9 bln (April 2015: RUB 794.6 bln).

The volume of repo transactions with the CCP was RUB 13.3 trln (April 2015: RUB 4.4 trln), while the average daily turnover increased 3.2 times YoY to RUB 633.6 bln.

Precious Metals Market

Trading volumes on the Precious Metals Market increased 1.7 times YoY to RUB 10.1 bln. Turnover was RUB 10.1 bln (3.8t) for gold and RUB 1.9 mln (52.9kg) for silver.