Total open interest as of the last day of the week, December 23th amounted to 20,95 billion rubles or 1,2 million contracts, 6,8% and 5,9% higher, respectively, then the numbers of the last day of the previous week.
FORTS, a unified derivatives market that was launched September 19th, 2001, is based on trading and settlement technologies and software that were implemented at and have been successfully used by St. Petersburg Stock Exchange for 8 years. RTS acts ad the trading system and the clearinghouse on the integrated market. 90 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan work on FORTS. They trade 10 futures and 8 options.
