While economic indicators continued to show deterioration in most global economies, the Russian stock market demonstrated considerable growth in trading activity.
During March RTS volumes were up 40,41% over February 2009.
Total RTS Exchange and OTC market activity grew to $9 bln during March 2009 and the leading RTS Index gained 26,64% reaching 689,63 points.
Activity on Futures and Options on RTS (FORTS) during March was also high, with futures volumes up 37% to 33,5 mln contracts compared with February.
A newly launched FX contract on EUR/USD became second by volume traded in March reaching $2,3 billion.
