RTS Bonds: Weekly Market Data

For the week of July 14th-July 18th, 2003, total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading in corporate, governmental, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, grew 13% on the week and reached 290 thousand US dollars. Four trades were registered in the system, compared with five trades the week before.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3, 2002. Currently 168 members of the Partnership, including 15 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.