OREANDA-NEWS. On 10 July 2008 was announced, that for the period from April 1st, 2008 to June 30th, 2008 the trading volume on FORTS, RTS derivatives section, reached 3 453,8 bln. roubles or 67,0 mln. contracts, including 69,1 bln. roubles during the evening trading session. At the end of the II quarter of 2008 the open interest stood at 271,3 bln. roubles or 7,2 mln. contracts.

For the II quarter of 2008 the trading volume on the RTS Stock Market reached \\$86,6 billion (2,05 trillion roubles), including all types of trades. For the same period the average daily trading volume on the RTS Classic Market reached \\$1,39 billion.

On June 30th, 2008 the RTS Index closed at 2303,34 points, 12,14% up on March 31st, 2008 closing value of 2053,93 points. Over the reviewed period the second-tier stock index, RTS-2, gained 4,53% to reach 2576,87 points (2465,21 points as of March 31st, 2008).

Top sellers of the quarter were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – \\$560,1 mln., ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – \\$542,8 mln., followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) - \\$435,0 mln. The share of each security in the trading volume made up 16,92%, 16,40% and 13,14% accordingly.

In June a considerable trading volume in bonds was registered. The top sellers of the quarter were National Capital (NCAP02) bonds, whose trading volume stood at \\$128,377 mln.

The first five positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the II quarter of 2008 took Troika Dialog, UBS Securities CJSC, Deutsche Securities ZAO, Renaissance Broker and KIT Finance Ltd. respectively.

The first five positions on T+O market: 1 – ALOR INVEST Ltd, 2 – Universal Investment Company Partner Ltd., 3 – ATON LLC, 4 – Troika Dialog, 5 – ALOR Plus Corporation.