OREANDA-NEWS. On 30 December 2008 was announced, that over the week of December 15 – December 19, 2008, the RTS Index went down by 2,76% to reach 634,22 points (652,21 points as of December 12, 2008). Most of the negative impact on the Index dynamics was related to the falling prices for Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) (minus 7,51 points), ordinary shares of OJSC "OC "Rosneft" (ROSN) (minus 7,03 points) and ОАО "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (minus 6,51 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 shed 1,87% to reach 546,89 points (557,33 points as of December 12, 2008). Last week most of the key economy sectors represented on the Russian Stock Market closed in the negative territory. The major loser was the industrials sector, the corresponding index shrank by 10,22%. Significant decline was registered in the oil & gas sector with the corresponding index losing 5,09%. The telecom sector showed the largest growth. The RTSI – Telecom gained 11,69%.

The total trading volume on RTS for the week December 15 – 19, 2008 equaled 3,6 bln. dollars (100,8 bln. roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – USD 16,537 mln., followed by Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) - USD 13,859 mln. and OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) – USD 6,142 mln. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 31,69%, 26,56% and 11,77% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of JSC "OGK-1" (OGKA) – by 46,48% to USD 0,0104, ordinary shares of "FGC UES " (FEES) – by 35,0% to USD 0,0054 and ordinary shares of OJSC "DIXY GROUP" (DIXY) – by 33,86% to USD 1,85.

The week's top losers were "MOSTOTREST" ordinary shares (MSTT), that fell in price by 33,33% to reach USD 300,0, ordinary shares of JSC "Aeroflot" (AFLT) that closed 24,52% down at USD 1,17 per share and JSC "Severstal" ordinary shares (CHMF) that posted 21,05% loss at USD 3,0.

RTS Stock Market leading operators

The first three positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the last week took Troika Dialog, Metallinvestbank OJSCo SKB and Deutsche Securities ZAO respectively.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 Market: 1 – EAST COMMERTS Investment group Ltd., 2 – REGION BC LLC, 3 – OTKRITIE Brokerage house JSC.

* The data is received by conversion of daily dollar turnovers into roubles.