OREANDA-NEWS. On 02 February 2009 was announced, that over the week of January 19 – January 23, 2009, the RTS Index went down by 12,10% to reach 498,20 points (566,77 points as of January 16, 2009). Most of the negative impact on the Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) (minus 16,15 points), OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (minus 8,06 points) and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) (minus 7,51 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 shed 8,86% to reach 463,36 points (508,41 points as of January 16, 2009). Last week all the economy sectors represented on the Russian Stock Market closed in the negative territory. The major loser was the financials sector, the corresponding index shrank by 18,60%. Significant decline was registered in power sector with the corresponding index losing 17,07%. The telecom sector showed the slightest drop. The RTSI – Telecom decreased by 7,37%.

The total trading volume on RTS for the week January 19 – 23, 2009 equaled 2,5 bln. dollars (82,2 bln. roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 28,941 mln., followed by OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) - USD 11,708 mln. and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) - USD 3,703 mln. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 49,71%, 20,11% and 6,36% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of OJSC Concern "KALINA" (KLNA) – by 8,11% to USD 6,0 and ordinary shares of JSC "The Seventh Continent" (SCON) – by 6,04% to USD 6,5.

The week's top losers were privileged shares of OJSC "GAZ" (GAZAP), that fell in price by 41,18% to reach USD 5,0, ordinary shares of OJSC Uralkali (URKA) that closed 39,23% down at USD 1,1 per share and ordinary shares of Mechel ОАО (MTLR) that posted 35,71% loss at USD 2,25.

RTS Stock Market leading operators

The first three positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the last week took, Renaissance Broker, Troika Dialog and OOO Merrill Lynch Securities respectively.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 Market: 1 – TransCreditBank JSC, 2 –  KIT Finance Ltd., 3 – Troika Dialog.