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MICEX Stock Exchange, the leading Russian stock exchange, announces today that at the close of trading on January 22 2008, trading volume in securities totaled RUR 286.89 billion (US$11.64 billion). This is the maximum trading volume achieved in the entire history of the MICEX Stock Exchange, which was launched in March 1997. The previous record of RUR 275.53 billion was registered on November 1 2007.
Main market trading accounted for RUR 141.79 billion of the volume; negotiated deals for RUR 14.58 billion and repos for RUR 130.51 billion. The volume of transactions in equities (without repos) amounted to RUR 145.94 billion; the volume of transactions in bonds (without repos) to RUR 10.40 billion; the volume of equity repos was RUR 97.93 billion and the volume of bond repos totaled RUR 32.58 billion.
The MICEX Index, the leading index for the Russian equity market, closed at 1,636.79 points on January 22, down 1.1% on the previous close. That was 13.3% down on the index close at the end of 2007.
The number of transactions carried out during January 22 2008’s trading was also a record high, at about 394,000. Total trading volume on the MICEX Stock Exchange between January 1 and January 22 was RUR 2.23 trillion, 1.9 times more than during the same period in 2007 (RUR 1.16 trillion).
