Futures & Options On The RTS Stock Exchange Derivatives Market Weekly Trading Data: July 4th - July 8th, 2005

For the week of July 4th – July 8th, 2005, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) increased by 73% and reached 12 billion rubles and 1.3 billion contracts. Total open interest as of July 8th, 2005, increased by 11% in rubles and 8% in contracts and equaled 17,6 billion rubles and 1,8 million contracts.

The record in options trading was registered on FORTS on July 8 th – 738 million rubles and 76 thousand contracts.

In June 2005 trading volume for Moscow City 3-year bond basket reached 1.2 billion rubles, 112 thousand contracts. September and December contracts became the 7 th and 8 th most frequently traded contracts, accordingly. Open interest in the first month of trading for these interest rates products exceeded 100 thousand contracts or 1 billion rubles.