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As a result of trading on the MICEX Stock Exchange held on 1 August 2007, the volume of trading in securities amounted to 230.18 billion rubles (9.01 billion dollars). Transactions concluded in the main trading mode accounted for 68.44 billion rubles, the negotiated deals mode accounted for 22.86 billion rubles, while repos accounted for 138.88 billion rubles. The volume of transactions in stocks (without repos) amounted to 68.89 billion rubles, the volume of transactions in bonds (without repos) amounted to 22.37 billion rubles, the volume of equity repos amounted to 84.10 billion rubles and the volume of bond repos amounted to 54.78 billion rubles. This is a record-high daily turnover for the history of trading on the MICEX Group’s stock market, which was launched in March 1997.
The previous record (226.59 billion rubles) was registered on 26 June 2007.
The MICEX Index, which tracks the behavior of prices on the Russian securities market, reached 1 693.14 points at the close on 1 August, down 2.4% on the previous trading day (the MICEX Index dropped by 0.02% over the end of 2006).
Over 188 thousand transactions were concluded in the course of trading on 1 August 2007.
