RTS Released Stock Market Weekly Trading Results

OREANDA-NEWS. January 27, 2010. Over the week of January 18 – January 22, 2010, the RTS Index went down by 4.48% to reach 1,489.46 points (1,559.25 points as of January 15, 2010). Most of the negative impact on the RTS Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for ordinary shares of OJSC "OC "Rosneft" (ROSNS) (minus 11.74 points) followed by ordinary shares of Gazprom (GAZPS) (minus 10.34 points) and ordinary shares of ОАО "LUKOIL" (LKOHS) (minus 8.83 points).

The RTS Standard Index, the blue chips index, lost 3.57% to reach 9,776.53 points (10,138.2 points as of January 15, 2010). The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 experienced a decrease of 2.78% closing at 1,496.99 points (1,539.79 points as of January 15, 2010). Last week almost all the key economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated a negative trend. The largest decline was reported by the metals & mining sector, with the RTS Metals & Mining Index shedding 5.30%. A significant decrease was also shown by the oil & gas and power sectors, with the RTS Oil & Gas Index and RTS Electric Utilities Index shrinking by 4.77% and 4.55% respectively. The only sector that demonstrated positive dynamics was the consumer & retail sector, with the RTS Consumer & Retail Index growing by 1.48%.

Last week the US dollar appreciated by 1.08% against the ruble to reach 29.75 rubles per US dollar (29.43 rubles as of January 15, 2010).

The total securities trading volume on RTS for the week January 18 – January 22, 2010 equaled USD12.48 billion (369.72 billion rubles*), including all types of trades. The trading volume on RTS Standard totaled USD2,488.84 million.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) with a turnover of USD1,480.38 million followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) with a turnover of USD541.79 million and ordinary shares of ОАО "LUKOIL" (LKOH) with a turnover of USD180.96 million. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 57.88%, 21.18% and 7.08% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of OJSC "Company "M.video" (MVID) that went up by 28.40% to USD5.2 followed by ordinary shares of JSC "SSC" (PBSP) – by 28.12% to USD0.1499 and ordinary shares of Ashinskiy metallurgical works (AMEZ) – by 24.63% to reach USD0.4175.

The week's top losers were ordinary shares of JSC "INTER RAO UES" (IRAO) that fell in price by 20.00% to reach USD0.0014 followed by ordinary shares of PJSC "NCSP" (NMTP) that lost 16.67% to reach USD0.15 and ordinary shares of "VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation" (VSMO) that shed 9.09% to reach USD80.

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

Trading volume of securities on RTS, mln dollars

RTS Stock Market Weekly Best Sellers

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Weekly Top Gainers (18.01.10 - 22.01.10)

Weekly Top Losers (18.01.10 - 22.01.10)

RTS Stock Market Leading Operators

The top three leading operators on RTS Classica: 1 – Troika Dialog, 2 – Citibank ZAO, 3 – Deutsche Securities ZAO.

RTS Classica Leading Operators (18.01.10 - 22.01.10)