RTS Bonds: Weekly Data February 17th-February 21st

For the week of February 17 - February 21st, 2003, total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, governmental, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, skyrocketed by 118%, from 1 091 thousand US dollars to 2 383 thousand for the week of February 10th. The number of trades increased by 47% and equaled 17.

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 and Classic RTS Bond market-makers quotations are available on the RTS server on the Internet.