RTS Released Stock Market Weekly Trading Results

OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2010. Over the week of April 12 – April 16, 2010, the RTS Index went up by 0.66% to reach 1,642.57 points (1,631.81 points as of April 9, 2010). Most of the positive impact on the RTS Index dynamics was related to the growing prices for ordinary shares of OAO Gazprom (GAZP) (plus 7.93 points), ordinary shares of OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" (GMKNS) (plus 3.50 points) and ordinary shares of Sberbank (SBERS) (plus 1.90 points).

The RTS Standard Index, the blue chips index, lost 0.21% to reach 10,263.38 points (10,284.85 points as of April 9, 2010). The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 experienced an increase of 2.54% closing at 1,981.32 points (1,932.21 points as of April 9, 2010). Last week most of the economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated an upping trend. The largest growth was reported by the consumer sector, with the RTS Consumer & Retail Index adding 2.748%. A significant increase was also shown by the financial sector, with the RTS Finances Index gaining 1.69%. A decline was shown by the electric utilities sector, with the RTS Electric Utilities Index decreasing by 1.11%.

Last week the US dollar depreciated by 1.60% against the ruble to reach 28.93 rubles per US dollar (29.40 rubles as of April 9, 2010).

The total securities trading volume on RTS for the week of April 12 – April 16, 2010 equaled USD12.34 billion (358.5 billion rubles*), including all types of trades. The trading volume on RTS Standard totaled USD1,912.17 million.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) with a turnover of USD1,017.55 million followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) with a turnover of USD383.35 million and ordinary shares of ОАО "LUKOIL" (LKOH) with a turnover of USD171.42 million. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 51.65%, 19.46% and 8.70% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of FESCO (FESH) that went up by 25.00% to USD0.5 followed by preferred shares of Ufaorgsintez (UFOSP) by 22.86% to USD1.72 and ordinary shares of MASHINOSTROITELNY ZAVOD (MASZ) – by 20% to USD 390.

The week's top losers were ordinary shares of JSC OGK-6 (OGKF) that fell 10.61% to reach USD0.04666 followed by ordinary shares of IDGC of Centre, JSC (MRKC) that lost 7.83% to reach USD0.0424 and ordinary shares of JSC TGK-2 that shed 6.82% to reach USD0.00041.

* 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 (12.04.10 - 16.04.10)

Weekly Top Losers (12.04.10 - 16.04.10)

RTS Stock market leading operators: March 2010

RTS Stock Market Leading Operators

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

RTS Classica Leading Operators

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