On April 11, 2011 by the end of the trading day on FORTS, the futures and options market of RTS, trading volume in futures contracts on gold amounted to USD290 million (RUB8,163,797,971) representing 197,332 contracts setting a record since the launch of trading in this contract in 2006.
The number of trades in this instrument also reached its highest level at 6,007 trades.
In total, at the end of yesterday trading day the turnover in all instruments of the FORTS commodities section amounted to USD466 million (RUB13,112,305,295) representing 294,606 contracts.
