Futures & Options On The RTS Stock Exchange: Weekly Market Data January 5th - January 9th, 2004

For the week of January 5th - January 9th, 2004, total trading volume on FORTS (Futures & Options on the RTS) reached 350 thousand contracts and 2 623 million rubles, compared with 268 thousand contracts and 2 044 million rubles for the previous period. Total open interest as of January 9th, 2004, reached 2 991 million rubles and 389 thousand contracts, compared with 2 390 million rubles and 349 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.