RTS Stock Exchange Bonds: IV Quarter Market Data

In the IV quarter of 2002 total trading volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal fixed-income securities and Eurobonds, reached 20,3 million US dollars, down from 216, 6 million US dollars in the III quarter. Eurobonds accounted for 43,5% of total volume, or 8,8 million US dollars (in the III Quarter Eurobond trading volume equaled 198 million dollars, of 91,4% of total volume. Trading in other securities accounted for 11,5 million US dollars compared with 18,7 million in the III quarter.

In the IV Quarter securities traded 111 times, down from 205 trades in the III quarter.

In the IV Quarter of 2002 5 bond IPOs took place on the RTS Stock Exchange - Sakha Republic, "PROMIF", "Irkutsk Aviation Industrial Association", "EvrazHolding", "Mellyanneft" - raising total of 2,3 billion rubles.

RTS Bonds IV Quarter Best Sellers

RTS Code	Name of the Issue	Total Volume, USD	RTS Total Volume Share, %
RGLB30	Government of Russian Federation Bonds (maturity year - 2030)	8 857 754	43,50%
TNKO05	Tumen Oil Company	4 738 531	23,27%
PMIF01	PROMIF	1 296 478	6,37%
TNKO04	Tumen Oil Company	1 214 001	5,96%
SLAV02	Slavneft	1 038 566	5,10%
ALRS08	ALROSA	821 831	4,04%
MOS025	City of Moscow bond, issue 25	812 906	3,99%
MOS016G	City of Moscow Bond, issue 16	386 025	1,90%
ALRS07	ALROSA	318 013	1,56%
KOM004	Komi Republic	286 893	1,41%

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 is available on the RTS server on the Internet.