RTS Stock Released January Market Trading Results

OREANDA-NEWS. February 21, 2011. In January 2011 the RTS Index went up by 5.65% to 1,870.31 points as of January 31, 2011 against 1,770.28 points as of December 30, 2010. Most of the positive impact on the RTS Index dynamics was coming from the growing prices for ordinary shares of Rosneft  (ROSNS) (up 20.53 points), JSC  “LUKOIL”  (LKOHS) (up 18.86 points) followed by ordinary shares of Gazprom (GAZPS) (up 12.02 points).

The RTS Standard Index, the blue chips index, rose by 3.82% to reach 11,828.74 points (11,393.51 points as of December 30, 2010). The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 Index went up by 3.10% to reach 2,307.27 points (2,237.93 points as of December 30, 2010).

January growth on the stock market was accompanied by an increase of volatility levels when the Russian Volatility Index RTSVX went up by 4.78% to reach 27.55 points (26.29 points as of December 30, 2010).

 Key economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market showed a positive trend. The largest gain was demonstrated by the industrial sector, with the RTS Industrial Index growing by 14.34%. A significant increase was reported by the oil & gas and financial sectors with the RTS Oil & Gas Index gaining 7.72% and the RTS Finances Index going up by 7.44%.

RTS Siberia Index gained 1.00%.

In January the US dollar depreciated by 2.28% against the Russian ruble to reach 29.67 rubles per US dollar (30.36 rubles as of December 30, 2010).

In January 2010 the securities trading volume on RTS equaled USD36.3 billion (1,089.9 billion rubles*), including all types of trades. The trading volume on RTS Standard totaled USD7,291.0 million.

The top sellers of the month on the RTS Stock Market were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) with a turnover of USD3,839.6 million followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) with a turnover of USD1,388.5 million and OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) with a turnover of USD620.8 million. The share of the above securities in the turnover made up 51.56%, 18.65% and 8.34% respectively.

The top gainers of the month were preferred shares of JSC Tomskaya energosbytovaya kompaniya  (TOSBP) that experienced a growth of 30.30% to reach USD0.0129, ordinary shares of JSC Chelpipe   (CHEP) that went up by 28.30% to reach USD3.4 and ordinary shares of GAZ (GAZA) that gained 27.70% to end up at USD47.25 per share.

The top losers of the month were ordinary shares of OJSC "Rusgrain Holding"  (RUGR) that lost 18.75% to reach USD325, OJSC "ROSINTER RESTAURANTS HOLDING"  (ROST)  that went down by 10.98% to reach USD22.7 and Transneft (TRNFP) that decreased by 8.71% to USD1269.

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

Trading volume of securities on RTS, mln dollars

RTS Stock Market Best Sellers: January 2011

RTS Top Gainers: January 2011

RTS Top Losers: January 2011

RTS Stock Market leading operators in January 2011

The top three leading operators on RTS Classica in January 2011: Troika Dialog, Deutsche Securities ZAO and Citi Group Global Markets ZAO.

The top three leading operators on RTS Standard in November 2010: OTKRITIE Group, Troika Dialog and ALOR INVEST Ltd.

RTS Classica Leading Operators in January 2011

RTS Standard Leading Operators in January 2011