A record-high volume of trading in non-government securities was registered on Tuesday, 4 October 2005, in secondary trading in securities held on the MICEX Stock Exchange. 114 thousand transactions worth of 54.887 billion rubles were carried out during the trading session, including: transactions in stocks – 42.55 billion rubles, transactions in bonds – 12.33 billion rubles. The volume of transactions carried out in the main trading mode amounted to 35.98 billion rubles, while the negotiated deals mode and repos accounted for 18.91 billion rubles. As a result, the MICEX Index exceeded by 0.7% the previous closing figure and amounted to 939.44 points. Since the beginning of 2005, the MICEX Index has grown by 70%.
The previous maximum value of the daily volume of trading in securities on the MICEX Stock Exchange (50.823 billion rubles) was reached 22 September 2005.
Since the beginning of 2005, the total volume of trading on the MICEX Stock Exchange has amounted to 4.16 trillion rubles (about 146 billion USD), which exceeds by 34% the volume of trading in securities for the same period of 2004 and amounts to 96% of the volume of trading in securities for the whole of 2004.
Today, the number of organizations participating in trading on the MICEX Stock Exchange is 526, including 320 banks and 206 investment companies.
