Futures & Options On The RTS Stock Exchange: Weekly Market Data January 19th - January 23rd, 2004

For the week of January 19th - January 23rd, 2004, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 603 thousand contracts and 4 817 million rubles, compared with 670 thousand contracts and 5 284 million rubles for the previous week. Total open interest as of January 23rd, 2003, reached 4 412 million rubles and 543 thousand contracts, compared with 3 444 million rubles and 417 thousand contracts.

FORTS, a unified derivatives market operating since September 19, 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 as the trading system and the clearinghouse on the integrated market. 84 companies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan FORTS participants trade 8 futures contracts and 3 options.