OREANDA-NEWS. On 12 February 2009 was announced, that in January 2009 the RTS Index slipped down by 15,33% to 535,04 points as of January 30th, 2008 against 631,89 points as of  December 31, 2008.

Most of the negative impact on the RTS Index dynamics was coming from falling prices for Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) (-27,89 points), Surgutneftegas ordinary shares (SNGS) (-11,14 points), OJSC "OC "Rosneft" ordinary shares (ROSN) (-9,53 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 went down by 20,13% to reach 437,86 points (548,20 points as of the end of December, 2008). All the sectors, represented on the Russian stock market, showed a negative trend. The major negative contributor was the financial sector, the corresponding Sectoral Index shed 33,67%. RTS Index – Electric Utilities reported a significant loss – 33,48%. The oil and gas sector demonstrated the smallest drop, with the RTS Index – RTS Index – Oil & Gas falling by 7,09%.

A serious factor that had a significant negative impact on the Indices’ dynamics was the rouble’s slide 18,05% versus US dollar in January.

In January 2009 the trading volume on RTS equaled 6,7 billion dollars (217,2 billion roubles*), including all types of trades.

The top sellers of the month on the RTS Stock Market were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 67,05 million, OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – USD 32,5 million, Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – USD 28,8 million. The share of the above securities in the turnover made up 36,76%, 17,70% and 15,71% respectively.

The top gainers of the month were JSC "NOVATEK" ordinary shares (NVTK), that experienced a 21,43% growth to close at USD 1,87, ordinary shares of JSC "SGC TGC-8" (TGKH) that went up by 10,0% to reach USD 0,0011 and JSC "Polymetal" ordinary shares (PMTL) that gained 8,54% to end up at USD 4,7 per share.

The top losers of the month were ordinary shares of JSC "LENENERGO" (LSNG), that fell in price by 60,0% to reach USD 0,26, ordinary shares of PJSC "NUTRINVESTHOLDING" that went down by 58,06% to reach USD 1,3 and ordinary shares of OJSC "OGK-5" (OGKE) that were down by 47,37% to USD 0,02.

RTS Stock market leading operators: January 2009

In January 2009 the top three positions in the RTS Classic market best sellers rating were retained by Troika Dialog, Renaissance Broker and OOO Merrill Lynch Securities.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 market: KIT Finance Ltd., Troika Dialog and TransCreditBank JSC.