Russian Trading System Bonds: Weekly Results

For the week of August 5th-August 9th, 2002, total volume in the RTS Bonds, the system facilitating trading of corporate, government, municipal debt, and Eurobonds, decreased from 2 332 thousand dollars to 1 577 thousand. The number of trades dropped from 20 to 15.

The RTS Bonds trading system opened up on June 3rd, 2002. Currently 81 members of the Partnership, including 14 market makers, trade fixed-income securities through Russian Trading System. Daily RTS Bonds market information is available on RTS server on the Internet.