OREANDA-NEWS. October 08, 2010. On Thursday, Oct 7, the UX index closed 0.78% up, or 14.65 ppt, at 1896.59 ppt. Trade activity was high at UAH 114.0mn. All sectors increased ranging from +0.2% (Gencos and railcar producers) to +1.0% (steel makers). Among banks FORM surged by 5.26% on UAH 4.5mn as the stock was recovering after a steep decline over the past days. USCB also supported the sector adding 2.65% on the second highest turnover (UAH 11.2mn) for the day while BAVL went up the least by only 1.23%. In steel sector ALMK (+1.57%) and ENMZ (+1.06%) outperformed the market, while AVDK increased just 0.83% on traditionally high turnover of UAH 10.4mn. On the foreign exchanges Cadogan showed the firm growth of 14.3% while Astarta dropped 3.6%. Regal (-7.8%) slumped the most on the highest turnover posting USD  1.95mn.