OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 March 2009 was announced, that over the week of March 2 – March 6, 2009, the RTS Index went up by 5.84% to reach 576.39 points (544.58 points as of February 27, 2009). Most of the positive impact on the Index dynamics was related to the growing prices for Surgutneftegas ordinary shares (SNGS) (plus 11.14 points), OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) (plus 6.67 points) and ordinary shares of OJSC "OC "Rosneft" (ROSN) (plus 5.17 points).

The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 went down by 1.41% to reach 434.64 points (440.86 points as of February 27, 2009). Last week all the key economy sectors represented on the Russian Stock Market experienced multidirectional movement of prices. The largest growth was demonstrated by the oil & gas sector, the corresponding index increased by 7.57%. Significant growth was registered in the financials sector, with the corresponding index gaining 3.42%. The largest decline was reported by the consumer & retail sector. The RTSI – Consumer & Retail went down by 3.45%.

Over the last week the US dollar gained 0.47% against the RF rouble to 35.89 roubles per US dollar (35.72 as of February 27, 2009).

The total trading volume on RTS for the week March 2 – 6, 2009 equaled 1.0 billion dollars (36.7 billion roubles*), including all types of trades.

The week's top sellers were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – USD 4.906 million, followed by OAO "LUKOIL" ordinary shares (LKOH) - USD 2.226 million and ordinary shares of JSC "RusHydro" (HYDR) - USD 1.219 million. The share of each security in the total trading volume made up 29.17%, 13.23% and 7.25% respectively.

The week's top gainers were ordinary shares of Surgutneftegas (SNGS) – by 20.0% to USD 0.66 followed by ordinary shares of NLMK (NLMK) – by 15.38% to USD 1.05 and Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – by 12.23% to USD 0.445.

The week's top losers were ordinary shares of JSC "Pharmstandard" (PHST) that fell in price by 13.41% to reach USD 15.5 followed by ordinary shares of "FGC UES ", JSC (FEES) that lost 9.87% to close at USD 0.00347 and OAO Raspadskaya ordinary shares (RASP) that posted 7.89% loss at USD 0.875.

RTS Stock Market leading operators

The first three positions in the RTS Classic Market leading operators rating of the last week were taken by Troika Dialog, Deutsche Securities ZAO, and OOO Merrill Lynch Securities respectively.

The first 3 positions on the RTS T+0 Market: 1 – OTKRITIE Brokerage house JSC, 2 – ING BANK (EURASIA) ZAO, 3 – Troika Dialog.