RTS Stock Exchange Bonds: Weekly Data

For the week of May 12th- May 16th, 2003, total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading in corporate, governmental, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, reached 1 043 thousand dollars, compared by 1 402 thousand dollars the previous week. Bonds traded in the system 14 times, down from 20 times the week of April 28th.

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.