The Daily Trading Value On The MICEX Stock Exchange Has Amounted To 2.95 Billion Dollars, The Market’s Historical Maximum

As a result of trading held 15 October 2006 on the MICEX Stock Exchange, the total volume of transactions in securities has amounted to 83 billion rubles (2.95 billion dollars). This is the record figure for the whole history of trading within the MICEX Group, which was launched in March 1997.

The previous record of 9 February 2006 was 73.8 billion rubles (2.62 billion dollars). The MICEX Index, which reflects the movement of prices in the Russian market of securities, reached 1237.56 points, 0.44% less than the day before. The record number of transactions in securities, 150 537, were carried out in the course of trading. Most actively traded shares were shares in RAO UES, Rostelecom, LUKoil, Sberbank and Norilsk Nickel.

On 15 February, the trading structure was as follows:

• secondary trading in stocks: 47.8 billion rubles;
• secondary trading in corporate and regional bonds: 10.8 billion rubles;
• REPOs: 14.2 billion rubles;
• primary placements: 10.2 billion rubles.