OREANDA-NEWS. On 24 February 2009 was announced, that over the week of February 9 – February 13, 2009, the RTS Index went up by 19.83% to reach 624.21 points (520.91 points as of February 6, 2009). Most of the positive impact on the Index dynamics was related to the growing prices for OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (plus 16.12 points), Surgutneftegas ordinary shares (SNGS) (plus 15.57 points) and ordinary shares of OJSC "OC "Rosneft" (ROSN) (plus 12.54 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 went up by 3.27% to reach 448.06 points (433.88 points as of February 6, 2009). Last week most of the economy sectors represented on the Russian Stock Market closed in the green territory. The major positive contributor was the oil & gas sector, the corresponding index increased by 19.69%. Significant growth was registered in the metals & mining sector, with the corresponding index gaining 18.60%. Only the industrials sector performed worse than the market. The RTSI – Industrial decreased by 4.08%.

Over the last week the US dollar lost 4.16% against the RF rouble to 34.80 roubles per US dollar (36.31 as of February 6, 2009).

The total trading volume on RTS for the week February 9 – 13, 2009 equaled 1.5 bln. dollars (54.7 bln. roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 21.529 mln., followed by Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) - USD 7.766 mln. and OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" ordinary shares (GMKN) - USD 4.411. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 40.22%, 14.51% and 8.24% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of Mechel ОАО (MTLR) – by 52.63% to USD 5.8 followed by ordinary shares of JSC "FGC UES" (FEES) – by 51.06% to USD 0.00355 and ordinary shares of OJSC "MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" (GMKN) – by 50.43 % to USD 61.0.

The week's top losers were ordinary shares of PIK Group (PIKK), that fell in price by 3.76% to reach USD 0.63247 and ordinary shares of OJSC LSR Group (LSRG) that posted 3.1% 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, CB "J.P. Morgan Bank International" (LLC), and Deutsche Securities ZAO respectively.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 Market: 1 – KIT Finance Ltd., 2 –  ALOR Plus Corporation, 3 – Troika Dialog.