RTS Released Stock Market Weekly Trading Results: May 10-13, 2011

OREANDA-NEWS. May 19, 2011. Over the week of May 10-13, 2011, the RTS Index went down by 3.62% to reach 1,866.30 points (1,936.29 points as of May 6, 2011). Most of the negative impact on the RTS Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for ordinary shares of “LUKOIL” (LKOHS) (down 20.94 points) followed by Gazprom (GAZPS) (down 16.12 points) and Rosneft (ROSNS) (down 4.76 points).

The RTS Standard Index, the blue chips index, lost 2.58% to reach 11,126.25 points (11,420.93 points as of May 6, 2011). The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 experienced a decrease of 1.91% closing at 2,204.83 points (2,247.82 points as of May 6, 2011).

Last week’s drop on the stock market was accompanied by an increase of volatility levels when the Russian Volatility Index RTSVX went up by 7.22% to reach 28.47 points (26.55 points as of May 6, 2011).

Last week most of the key economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated a negative trend. The largest downturn was reported by the oil & gas sector, with the RTS Oil & Gas Index decreasing by 5.28%. A significant decrease was also shown by the power and finance sectors, with the RTS Electric Utilities Index and RTS Finances Index going down by 2.87% and 2.45% respectively.

The regional index, RTS Siberia Index, lost 1.08%.

The US dollar appreciated by 2.51% against the ruble to reach 27.95 rubles per US dollar (27.26 rubles as of May 6, 2011).

The total securities trading volume on RTS for the week of May 10-13, 2011 equaled USD8.35 billion (231.99 billion rubles*), including all types of trades. The trading volume on RTS Standard totaled USD2,252.13 million.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) with a turnover of USD873.43 million followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) with a turnover of USD730.33 million and ordinary shares of "LUKOIL" (LKOH) with a turnover of USD178.06 million. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 38.33%,32.05% and 7.81% respectively.

The week's top gainers were preferred shares of Open JSC "Nizhnekamskshina" (NKSH) that went up by 62.50% to USD1.30 followed by OJSC "Rostelecom"  (RTKM)  – by 4.53% to USD5.54 and Sberbank  (SBER) – by 1.79% to reach USD3.523.

The week's top losers were preferred shares of JSOC Bashneft (BANEP) that fell 5.98% to reach USD42 followed by ordinary shares of Tatneft (TATN) that lost 5.85% to reach USD5.63 and FESCO (FESH) that shed 5.17% to reach USD0.55.

* 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 (10.05.11 - 13.05.11)

Weekly Top Gainers (10.05.11 - 13.05.11)

Weekly Top Losers (10.05.11 - 13.05.11)

RTS Stock Market Leading Operators

The top three leading operators on RTS Classica: 1 – Troika Dialog, 2 - Deutsche Bank Ltd., 3 – Citi Group Global Markets ZAO.

RTS Classica Leading Operators (10.05.11 - 13.05.11)