OREANDA-NEWS. On 05 June 2009 was announced, that in May 2009 the Russian stock market experienced an increase of prices for the majority of its liquid securities.

The RTS Index grew 30.58% to 1087.59 points (832.87 points on 30 April). By the end of May RTSI was 55.79% lower compared to its closing level one year ago (2459.88 points on 30 May 2008). The U.S. Dollar depreciated by 5.78% against the Ruble in May.

Out of RTSI's total 50 constituents, 49 had positive impact on the Index (plus 256.04 index points), 1 securities moved negatively (minus 1.32 points).

The positive impact was coming mostly from the prices of common shares of JSC "Sberbank" (plus 59.81 points), JSC "Gazprom" (plus 33.08 points)

and JSC "Rosneft" (plus 23.99 points).

The negative effect leaders were common shares of JSC "Rostelecom" (minus 1.32 points).

More than 50% of the RTSI total capitalization continued to be concentrated in the Oil & Gas sector. The other large-weight sectors were Financials (16.8%) and Metallurgy (11.7%).

Oil & Gas (plus 111.06 points), Financials (plus 73.39 points), and Metallurgy (plus 25.83 points) contributed most to the growth of RTSI in May.

RTSI Futures Contract

Trading in RTSI-linked derivatives amounted to RUR 750.9 billion or 12.3 million contracts in May 2009. Futures based on RTSI remained the most liquid derivative contracts making up 72.23% of the total FORTS (Futures and Options on the RTS) turnover in cash terms.

With RTSI growing 30.58% in May 2009, the June contracts (RTS-06.09) went up 36.51%, and the September contracts (RTS-09.09) went up 37.19%.

RTSI-based futures traded below their underlying asset during the month. Towards the end of May, the June contracts were 1.1 points in backwardation. The September futures contracts were 5.65 points ahead of the main indicator, RTSI.

Investor's open interest in the RTSI-based futures measured in contracts grew by 17.37% compared to the end of April.

Second-tier Stocks

In May 2009 the second-tier shares showed positive price dynamics.

The RTS-2 Index for the past month grew 34.84% to 857.80 (636.18 on 30 April). By the end of May RTS-2 was 66.75% lower compared to its closing level one year ago (2580.20 points on 30 May 2008).

Out of the 74 constituent stocks on the RTS-2 Index, 66 had positive impact on its dynamics (plus 221.96 index points), 2 had negative impact (minus -0.34 points), and 6 remained unchanged in price.

The major positive push to the RTS-2 Index was coming from the price increase of common shares of JSC "Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port" (plus 23.02 points), JSC "Polymetall" (plus 18.57 points), and JSC "Holding MRSK" (plus 13.26 points).

Negative impact was minimal. Most of the negative impact on the RTS-2 Index was coming from decline in prices of privileged shares of JSC "North-West Telecom" (minus 0.20 points).

In terms of weight in RTS-2 Index, Power Industry was the largest (20.8%), followed by the Consumer Sector (16.2%) and Metallurgy (14.7%).

The largest contributors to the growing RTS-2 in May were securities of the Power Industry (overall plus 52.55 points), Metallurgy (plus 46.18 points) and Telecommunication (plus 25.86 points).

The RTS Family of Indices

Index

Number of constituents

MC of constituent companies, USD mln

Combined MC, free-float adjusted, USD mln

Share of total MC, %

Total

Average

Max

Min

RTS Index

50

498 271,2

9 965,4

136 785,6

240,2

89 890,1

86,8%

RTS-2 Index

74

50 349,8

680,4

3 009,3

42,6

10 550,6

8,8%

RTS Oil & Gas

12

324 174,6

27 014,6

136 785,6

199,1

52 987,3

56,5%

RTS - Consumer & Retail

11

7 841,5

712,9

3 009,3

72,0

1 138,6

1,4%

RTS - Metals & Mining

12

60 125,5

5 010,5

21 255,0

111,1

7 268,1

10,5%

RTS - Industrials

10

3 270,1

327,0

778,0

42,6

558,6

0,6%

RTS - Electric Utilities

14

34 974,4

2 498,2

10 266,3

258,4

5 530,0

6,1%

RTS - Telecom

12

19 061,3

1 588,4

11 162,6

52,6

1 616,9

3,3%

RTS - Financials

9

46 536,2

5 170,7

30 545,5

82,4

1 931,9

8,1%

All sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated positive dynamics in May.

The U.S. Dollar lowered by 5.78% against the Ruble in May - to RUR31.33/\\$ (33.25 on 30 April).

The growth leader was Financial Sector: RTS - Finance grew 47.98%. The Industry Sector picked up substantially: RTS - Industry grew 42.71%.

The lowest growth was in the Telecommunications sector: RTS - Telecommunications picked up 14.39%.

Index

Last Value

Change Over (Period), %

Max

Min

Month

Quarter

Year

Value

Date

Value

Date

RTS Index

1 087,59

30,58%

99,71%

-55,79%

1 087,59

29.05.09

855,67

04.05.09

RTS-2 Index

857,80

34,84%

94,57%

-66,75%

857,80

29.05.09

655,92

04.05.09

RTS Oil & Gas

160,59

22,33%

76,20%

-51,93%

160,59

29.05.09

134,40

04.05.09

RTS - Consumer & Retail

156,89

25,12%

119,80%

-54,41%

156,89

29.05.09

128,97

04.05.09

RTS - Metals & Mining

163,55

31,32%

83,93%

-60,83%

163,55

29.05.09

127,91

04.05.09

RTS - Industrials

82,37

42,71%

111,86%

-80,56%

82,37

29.05.09

60,17

04.05.09

RTS - Electric utilities

143,96

36,57%

135,92%

-60,66%

143,96

29.05.09

103,96

05.05.09

RTS - Telecom

119,22

14,39%

50,97%

-56,14%

121,62

20.05.09

107,39

04.05.09

RTS - Financials

226,83

47,98%

124,96%

-67,45%

226,83

29.05.09

157,82

04.05.09