OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Exchange (ticker: MOEX) announces trading volumes for December 2015. The Bond Market, FX Market and Derivatives Market posted the strongest growth, with volumes increasing 26.6%, 20.8% and 16.4% YoY, respectively. The Money Market rose 11.1% YoY.

Equity & Bond Market

Secondary market turnover in stocks, RDRs and investment fund units was RUB 758.6 bln. (December 2014: RUB 1,199.3 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 34.5 bln (December 2014: RUB 54.5 bln).

Secondary corporate, regional and sovereign bond turnover was RUB 1,018.7 bln (December 2014: RUB 805.0 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 46.3 bln (December 2014: RUB 36.6 bln).

A total of 21 new bond issues with a combined value of RUB 155.1 bln were placed in December.

Derivatives Market

Derivatives Market volumes was RUB 9.9 trln (December 2014: RUB 8.5 trln), or 162.6 mln contracts (December 2014: 168.9 mln contracts), of which 157.0 mln contracts were futures and 5.6 mln contracts were options.

Open interest at the end of the month was RUB 590.1 bln (December 2014: RUB 457.3 bln).

FX Market

FX Market turnover was RUB 30.9 trln (December 2014: RUB 25.6 trln), including spot trades of RUB 11.0 trln and swap trades of RUB 19.9 trln.

The FX Market's average daily turnover was RUB 1,406.2 bln (USD 20.2 bln) compared to RUB 1,164.1 bln in December 2014.

Money Market

Money Market turnover totalled RUB 27.6 trln (December 2014: RUB 24.9 trln). The average daily turnover was RUB 1,255.2 bln (December 2014: RUB 1,129.9 bln).

The volume of repo transactions with the CCP was RUB 9.5 trln (December 2014: RUB 3.1 trln), with the average daily turnover increasing by 200% YoY to RUB 431.8 bln.

Precious Metals Market

Trading volumes on the Precious Metals Market was RUB 8.8 bln (December 2014: RUB 4.5 bln). Turnover was RUB 8.8 bln (3.7 t) for gold and RUB 3.5 mln (110.9 kg) for silver.

Commodities Market

Turnover of grain totalled RUB 4.6 mln.  Trading in grain was launched on National Mercantile Exchange, part of Moscow Exchange Group, on 23 December 2015.