OREANDA-NEWS. On 1 August 2008 was announced, that over the week of July 21st – 25th, 2008, the RTS Index went down by 8,62% to reach 1951,29 points (2135,38 points as of July 18th, 2008). Most of the negative impact on the Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (minus 28,48 points), Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) (minus 28,32) and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) (minus 26,68 points), JSC Uralkali ordinary shares (URKA) (minus 6,26 points) and NLMK ordinary shares (NLMK) (minus 4,77 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 shed 5,45% to reach 2281,04 points (2412,62 points as of July 18th, 2008). Last week all the key sectors represented on the Russian stock market showed a clearly negative trend. Metals & Mining reported the largest drop: the RTS Index - Metals & Mining shrank by 12,99%, followed by the Oil & Gas sector: the corresponding Sectoral Index went down by 8,36%. The slightest decline was registered in the Telecom, the corresponding RTS Sectoral Index dropped 2,54%.

The total trading volume on RTS for the week July 21st – 25th, 2008 equaled 5,7 bln dollars (133,1 bln roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 47,881 mln., ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – USD 30,486 mln. and Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – USD 26,988 mln. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 22,52%, 14,34% and 12,70% accordingly.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of the Tula Retail Company (TLSB) – by 14,04% to USD 0,0325, privileged shares of Transneft (TRNFP) – by 13,45% to USD 1350,00 and ordinary shares of JSC "Pharmstandard" (PHST) – by 3,91% to USD 71,70.

The week's top losers were Mechel ОАО ordinary shares (MTLR), that fell in price by 30,41% to reach USD 25,75, privileged shares of PJSC "Krasny Kotelshchik" (KRKOP) that closed 26,67% down at USD 0,55 per share and ordinary shares of "FGC UES ", JSC (FEES) that posted 23,38% loss at USD 0,0118.

RTS Stock market leading operators

The first three positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the last week took Troika Dialog, Renaissance Broker and UBS Securities CJSC respectively.

The first 3 positions on T+O market: 1 – ALOR INVEST Ltd., 2 – ALOR Plus Corporation, 3 – Universal Investment Company Partner Ltd.