OREANDA-NEWS  On 22 October was announced, that over the week of October 13th– 17th, 2008, RTS Index went down by 20,97% and reached 667,62 points (844,75 points as of October 10th, 2008). Leaders of negative impact on RTS Index became ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (-49,97 points), Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) (-36,62 points), Sberbank (SBER) ordinary shares (-23,91 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 went down by 17,84% to reach 906,35 points (1103,09 points as of October 10, 2008). Last week all RTS Indices showed a negative trend. RTS Index – Financials decreased most, by 24,34%. RTS Index – Oil & Gas showed a considerable decrease by 22,68%. Index RTS – Telecom lost the least number of points, it dropped by only 5,91%.

For the week of October 13 – 17, 2008 the total trading volume on RTS equaled 3,4 bln. dollars (88,7 bln. rubles*), including all types of trades.

The top sellers of the week were JSC "Salavatnefteorgsintez" ordinary shares (SNOZ) with the turnover for the week equal to USD 150,292 mln, Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) –  USD 21,562 mln and Gazprom (GAZP) - USD 11,383 mln. The share of each security in the trading volume made up 72,02%, 10,33% and 5,45% accordingly.

The top gainers of the week were O.J.S.C. "Uralsvyazinform" ordinary shares (URSI) that gained 17,89% and reached USD 0,0112, OJSC "Polyus Gold" ordinary shares (PLZL)  - 15,94% and reached USD 20,0, and JSC "LENENERGO" privileged shares (LSNGP) – 15,0% and reached USD 1,15.

The top losers of the week were ordinary shares of Sistema JSFC that fell in price by 50,0% and reached USD 0,25, Tatneft ordinary shares (TATN) – fell by 49,31% and reached USD 1,1 and OJSC LSR Group ordinary shares (LSRG) – fell by 47,37% and reached USD 7,0.

RTS Stock market leading operators

This week the best sellers on the RTS Classic market are: Troika Dialog, the second place is taken by Renaissance Broker, the third place occupies OOO Merrill Lynch Securities.

The first 3 positions on T+O market: 1 – ALOR Plus Corporation, 2 - ALOR INVEST Ltd, 3 - Troika Dialog.

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