Russian Trading System Bonds: Weekly Market Information

For the week of October 21th-October 25th, 2002, the total volume on the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, reached 552 thousand US dollars, down from to 1,595 million USD the week before. The number of trades equaled 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 server on the Internet.