OREANDA-NEWS  On 14 October was announced, that for the 3Q of 2008 the trading volume on the RTS Stock Market reached USD 82,0 billion (1,99 trillion roubles), including all types of trades. For the same period the average daily trading volume on the RTS Stock Market reached USD 1,24 billion.

On September 30th, 2008 the RTS Index closed at 1211,84 points, 47,39% down on the closing value as of June 30th, 2008 (2053,93 points). Over the reviewed period the second-tier stock index, RTS-2, shed 46,63% to reach 1375,18 points (2576,87 points as of June 30th, 2008).

Top sellers of the quarter were Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – USD 525,7 mln., Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 510,9 mln., followed by OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) - USD 409,7 mln. The share of each security in the trading volume made up 20,57%, 19,99% and 16,03% accordingly.

The III Quarter saw a significant trading volume in bonds. The top sellers of the quarter were LLC "FinanceBusinessGroup" (FBGR02) bonds, whose trading volume stood at USD 127,709 mln.

The first five positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the III Quarter of 2008 took Troika Dialog, Deutsche Securities ZAO, UBS Securities CJSC, Renaissance Broker and METROPOL IFCo. Ltd. respectively.

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

Detailed information are available here.