RTS Bonds: February Data

For the month of February total trading volume on RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, increased 15,3 times and reached 7 740 thousand US dollars, compared with 505 thousand dollars in January, 2003.

Moscow City Bonds accounted for 50% of total turnover; Russian Federation External bonds due in 2003 - for 29% of total trading volume. In February fixed-income securities traded 87 times, 4.5 times more than in January.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3, 2002. Currently 167 members of the Partnership, including 16 market makers, trade fixed-income securities on the RTS Stock Exchange. Daily RTS Bonds market information is available on the RTS server on the Internet