OREANDA-NEWS. August 16, 2011. On August 9, 2011, more than one million trades were made in the MICEX Group’s markets and more than 40 million users’ transactions were processed. This is an absolute historic record for the MICEX Group.

Against the background of high volatility and increased business activity of participants in the MICEX stock market during one trading day, 1.07395 million trades were made in stocks, bonds and shares of investment funds. The total trading volume exceeded 490 billion rubles, having reached its historic high.

On Tuesday, August 9, 38 012 trades were made in the MICEX foreign exchange market. This is the maximum amount for the history of foreign exchange trading on the MICEX. Their total volume reached 18.4 billion USD, the highest figure since 2009.

The MICEX Hard- and Software Complex successfully coped with record load. The central unit of the trading and clearing system, access servers and all subsystems are functioning in a normal mode with ample reserves of capacity and processing power.