OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2011. UFC Capital released daily market view:

Starting March 24, 2011, new rules for trading on the futures market of the Ukrainian Exchange will be added. These will pertain the introduction of options trading for futures on the UX Index. Training on options trading is scheduled to start by the end of March, with full-blown trading beginning once investors are comfortable with the system.

Equity market. On March 17, stocks in the Ukrainian Exchange Index continued to rise. News from world stock exchanges cause growth to accelerate in the second half of the day. Overall, the index increased 1.8% on the day, thereby returning to its level on March 14. We also want to point out that trading activity also significantly picked up at the end of the session. The trading volume on the spot market totaled to UAH 202 mln, while on the futures market it amounted to UAH 122 mln.

Thursday's news about the NERC's intention to increase electricity tariffs for consumers of all classes by 15% had a positive impact on the stocks of only two power generation companies – Centrenergo (CEEN; HOLD) at +3.06% and Donbasenergo (DOEN; BUY) at +1.64%. On the other hand, Dniproenergo (DNEN; HOLD) and Zakhidenergo (ZAEN; HOLD) lost 4.46% and 1.52% respectively.

The day's top performing stock was Sun InBev Ukraine (SUNI; BUY), which grew by 15.22% as the result of the trading session. Stirol (STIR; BUY) also performed well, by increasing 4.61%. Motor Sich (MSICH; BUY) was once again the most traded stock, though at a much lower volume than yesterday – UAH 34.1 mln and 709 transactions. Ukrnafta (UNAF; SELL) stock increased less than other shares within the index at +0.88%.