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RTS Stock Exchange Bonds: September Market Data

Date 02/10/2003

For the month of September the total trading volume on RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, increased from 34 478 to 38 352 thousand rubles. Moscow City Bonds accounted for 57%of total turnover; “Obibank” bonds – for 28% of total volume, “Tatmetall” bonds – for 8% of total volume, and “IRKUT” – for 7% of the total volume. In September fixed-income securities traded 16 times.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3, 2002. Currently 169 members of the RTS Partnership, including 12 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.