RTS Stock Exchange Bonds: December 9th-December 20th

For the period of December 9th-December 20th, 2002, the total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, reached 5 460 thousand US dollars, compared to 673 thousand US dollars for the week of December 2nd. The Eurobonds trading volume amounted to 4 844 thousand US dollars. The number of trades equaled 19.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3, 2002. Currently 167 members of the Partnership, including 14 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.