RTS Bonds: Weekly Data April 21st- April 25th

For the week of April 21st- April 25th, 2003, total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading in corporate, governmental, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, increased by 75%, from 845 thousand US dollars to 1 477 thousand US dollars. Bonds traded in the system 31 times, a 107% gain on the week.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3, 2002. Currently 166 members of the Partnership, including 16 market makers, trade fixed-income securities on the RTS Stock Exchange. Daily RTS Bonds market information and Classic RTS Bond market-makers quotations are available on the RTS server on the Internet.