RTS Bonds: Weekly Data February 25th-February 28th

For the week of February 25th- February 28th, 2003, total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, governmental, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, increased by 25.4%, from 2 383 thousand US dollars to 2 988 thousand for the week of February 17th. The number of trades dropped from 25 to 16.

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.