Russian Trading System Bonds: Weekly Data Report

For the week of October 14th-October 18th, 2002, the total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, rose 26% and reached 1.595 million US dollars, compared to 1.265 million dollars the week before. The number of trades decreased from 10 to 7.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3, 2002. Currently 161 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 Web-site on the Internet.