OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2012. In 2012 the Russian stock market was open during the January public holidays for the first time. From 3rd January to 9th January, 2012 the integrated exchange MICEX-RTS operated its trading services on the derivatives, securities, currency and money markets.

Functioning of the Exchange during the holidays was aimed at providing all categories of market participants with a possibility to manage their risks on the long weekend, withdraw funds from their trading accounts or deposit funds as well as to take into account a situation on the global financial markets. 

For the holidays period, market participants executed 1.4 million trades for a total value of RUB878 billion in the Main market sector of the MICEX–RTS securities market. 169 thousand trades with a total value of RUB36 billion were executed in the Standard sector.  More than 14.5 thousand REPO trades with RUB393 billion in value were executed by participants in these sectors. In total, 39,709 trading participants made transactions in stocks during the holidays.

On the MICEX-RTS derivatives market trading volume exceeded RUB535 billion representing more than 11 million contracts. About 20 thousand clients traded on the derivatives market during the holidays. They executed more than 2 million trades in futures and options.

76 credit institutions performed transactions on the MICEX-RTS currency market. They executed 30 thousand trades with a total value of RUB253 billion. 

23 professionals of the government securities market, including the Bank of Russia, executed 609 trades with a total value of RUB370 billion.  

Trading results for the period from 3rd of January through 9th of January, 2012 demonstrated a need of participants of the Russian financial market to have an opportunity to perform trading transactions on the stock market during holiday periods.