OREANDA-NEWS. On 04 May 2008 was announced, that for the week of April 21st – April 25th, 2008 RTS Index went down by 2,15% to reach 2129,15 points (2175,92 points as of April 18th, 2008). Leaders of negative impact on RTS Index became ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – 7,65 points, Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – (7,18 points) and RAO UESR ordinary shares (EESR) – 6,98 points.

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 – was down by 1,64% to 2485,35 (2526,87 as of April 18th, 2008). Most of the economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated a negative trend last week. The largest drop was registered in Electric Utilities sector. RTS Index – Electric Utilities was down by 9,51%, followed by RTS Index – Telecom that shed 3, 62%.

Positive dynamics was registered only in Financials and Consumer & Retail sectors. The corresponding Indices grew by 0,81% and 0,44% respectively.

For the week of April 21st – April 25th the total trading volume on RTS equaled 4,5 bln. dollars (105,9 bln. rubles*), including all types of trades.
The top sellers of the week were ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – \\$51,223 mln., Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – \\$36,186 mln., followed by Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) - \\$29,635 mln. The share of each security in the trading volume made up 19,57%, 13,82% and 11,32% accordingly.

The top gainers of the week were "Joint stock venture "TSUM Trading House" ordinary shares (TZUM) that went up by 33,33% and reached \\$6,00, FESCO ordinary shares (FESH) that gained 17,35% and reached \\$1,15, SC "OPIN" ordinary shares (OPIN) that were up by 10,86% and reached \\$245,00.

The top losers of the week were ordinary shares of JSC "OGK-3" (OGKC) that fell in price by 25,81% and reached \\$0,12, ordinary shares of JSC "IDGC of Center and Volga region" (MRKP) that went down by 13,14% and reached \\$0,02 and ordinary shares of JSC "OGK-5" (OGKE) that shed 13,04% and reached \\$0,10.
* The data is received by conversion of daily dollar turnovers into rubles

RTS Stock market leading operators

The best sellers on the RTS Classic market last week were: Troika Dialog took the first place, the second place was taken by Deutsche Securities ZAO, followed by METROPOL IFCo. Ltd on the third place.

The first 3 positions on T+O market: 1 – Troika Dialog, 2 – ATON LLC, 3 – URALSIB Capital Limited Liability Company.