RTS Released December 20-24 Stock Market Weekly Trading Results

OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2010. Over the week of December 20-24, 2010, the RTS Index went up by 1.47% to reach 1,769.57 points (1,743.87 points as of December 17, 2010). Most of the positive impact on the RTS Index dynamics was related to the growing prices for ordinary shares of OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL (GMKNS) (plus 5.06 points) followed by ordinary shares of Gazprom (GAZPS) (plus 4.87 points) and Sberbank  (SBERS) (plus 3.94 points).

The RTS Standard Index, the blue chips index, gained 0.45% to reach 11,362.40 points (11,311.05 points as of December 17, 2010). The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 experienced an increase of 0.80% closing at 2,248.41 points (2,230.53 points as of December 17, 2010).

Last week’s growth on the stock market was accompanied by a decrease of volatility levels when the Russian Volatility Index RTSVX went down by 0.88% to reach 22.51 points (22.71 points as of December 17, 2010).

Last week all the key economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated a positive trend. The largest growth was reported by the financial sector, with the RTS Finances Index adding 2.01%. A significant increase was also shown by the industrial and oil & gas sectors, with the RTS Industrial Index and RTS Oil & Gas Index going up by 1.88% and 1.64% respectively.

The regional index, RTS Siberia Index, added 0.66%.

Last week the US dollar depreciated by 0.52% against the ruble to reach 30.59 rubles per US dollar (30.75 rubles as of December 17, 2010).

The total securities trading volume on RTS for the week of December 20-24, 2010 equaled USD10.8 billion (330.8 billion rubles*), including all types of trades. The trading volume on RTS Standard totaled USD1,689.2 million.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) with a turnover of USD1,076.58 million followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) with a turnover of USD273.09 million and ordinary shares of JSC  “LUKOIL” (LKOH) with a turnover of USD90.99 million. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 62.34%, 15.81% and 5.27% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of JSC "OPIN"  (OPIN) that went up by 35.71% to USD47.5 followed by ordinary shares of "ALROSA-Nurba" Company    (ALNU) – by 15.79% to USD1100 and  FESCO  (FESH) – by 10.10% to reach USD0.545.

The week's top losers were ordinary shares of MOSENERGO  (MSNG) that fell 12.50% to reach USD0.105 followed by ordinary shares of  Silvinit  (SILV) that lost 4.79% to reach USD895 and  JSC Acron  (AKRN) that lost 3.71% to reach USD35.

* The data is received by conversion of daily dollar turnovers into rubles

Trading volume of securities on RTS, mln dollars

RTS Stock Market Weekly Best Sellers (20.12.10 - 24.12.10)

Weekly Top Gainers (20.12.10 - 24.12.10)

Weekly Top Losers (20.12.10 - 24.12.10)

RTS Stock Market Leading Operators

The top three leading operators on RTS Classica: 1 – Troika Dialog, 2 – KIT Finance Ltd, 3 – Deutsche Bank Ltd .

RTS Classica Leading Operators (20.12.10 - 24.12.10)