OREANDA-NEWS. The total trading volume in moscow Exchange for the week equaled RUB5.8 trillion. Average daily trading volume amounted to RUB1,449 billion, down 4.1 % from the previous week. Trading in securities, RDRs and mutual funds units made up 2% (RUB108 billion) of the total trading volume, the fixed income market share was 3% (RUB187 billion), the derivatives market - 14% (RUB838 billion), the FX and money market - 80% (RUB4,664 billion) and the commodities market - 0.1% (RUB1 billion).

Secondary market trading volume totaled RUB108 billion last week. Average daily trading volume was RUB27 billion, down 6.2% from the previous week. The Main Market sector made up 95% of the total secondary market trading volume, the Standard sector - 5%, the Classica sector - 0.2%. OTC trades volume equaled RUB45 billion or 30% of the combined value of secondary market trades and OTC trades.

Over the week, the MICEX Index was up 1.2% to reach 1,491.35 (1,473.54 as of March 01, 2013 ). The dollar-denominated RTS Index was up 1.5% to reach 1,532.09 points (1,509.8 as of March 01, 2013 ). The US dollar appreciated by 0.2% against the ruble. Capitalization of the cash equity market was up 1% and amounted to USD829.04 billion as of the last day of the week (USD820.88 billion as of March 01, 2013 ).

Ordinary shares of the following blue chip companies surged: Rosneft — by 2.7% to RUB248.31, LUKOIL — by 2.6% to RUB2,010, MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" — by 2.2% to RUB5,465, Sberbank — by 2.2% to RUB105.31, Surgutneftegas — by 1.9% to RUB29.14, and VTB Bank — by 0.2% to RUB0.06. Prices of Polyus Gold ordinary shares remained unchanged at RUB1,026.1. Prices of the following ordinary shares shed: FGC UES - by 0.5% to RUB0.19, GAZPROM — by 0.8% to RUB133.73, and Rostelecom — by 3% to RUB121.

The week's top sellers were of Sberbank of Russia ordinary shares (SBER) with a turnover of RUB29 billion (27% of a total trading volume) followed by GAZPROM ordinary shares (GAZP) with a turnover of RUB24 billion (22%), LUKOIL ordinary shares (LKOH) - RUB8 billion (7%), MMC "NORILSK NICKEL" (GMKN) - RUB7 billion (6%), and Rosneft (ROSN) - RUB4 billion (4%). Other securities traded for a total of RUB35 billion (33%) of the overall trading volume.

The MICEX Corporate Bond Index (MICEX CBI CP) remained unchaged at 93.47 (93.48 as of March 01, 2013). The MICEX Municipal Bond Index (MICEX MBI CP) was up 0.01% to 97.62, while the Russian Government Bond Index (RGBI) was down 0.22% to 138.35 (138.65 as of March 01, 2013).

For the week the total trading volume on the Moscow Exchange's Derivatives market equaled RUB838 billion or 18 billion contracts. The average daily volume traded on the market was RUB209 billion, down 9.8% from the previous week. The total open interest as of the last day of the week reached RUB11 billion or 445 million contracts. Index derivatives made 62% of the total trading volume (RUB517 billion), equity derivatives — 6% (RUB53 billion),FX derivatives - 29% (RUB246 billion), interest rate derivatives - 0.4% (RUB2 billion), and commodity derivatives - 2.4% (RUB20 billion).

The last week's top sellers of the derivatives market were the RTS Index futures contract (RTS), with a trading volume reaching RUB514 billion (61%), USD/RUB FX futures contract (Si) with RUB164 billion (20%), EUR/USD FX futures contract (ED) with RUB77 billion (9%), futures on Sberbank ordinary shares (SBR) with RUB26 billion (3%), and futures on Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZ) with RUB16 billion (2%). Other derivative instruments were traded for a total of RUB41 billion (5%).

The US dollar and euro strengthened against the ruble last week The US dollar with tomorrow settlement added 4.8 kopecks (0.2%) reaching 30.7393 rubles per dollar. The euro with tomorrow settlement gained 4.8 kopecks (0.1%), reaching 40.0475 rubles per euro as of March 07, 2013 .

FX market trading volume for the week totaled RUB1,859 billion. The average daily trading volume was RUB465 billion, down 0.6% from the previous week. Spot operations were made for a total of RUB772 billion or 41.5% of the total trading volume. Swap operations accounted for 58.5% of the total trading volume (RUB1,087 billion).

The USD/RUB transactions made up 78.5% of the total trading volume on the market with a total value of RUB1,459 billion, the EUR/RUB transactions - RUB349 billion (18.8%), the EUR/USD transactions - RUB50 billion (2.7%), the CNY/RUB transactions - RUB0.18 billion (0.01 %) and the dual currency basket made up RUB1 billion (0.01 %).

Money Market trading volume equaled RUB2,805 billion last week. The average daily trading volume was RUB701 billion, down 3.4% from the previous week. Volume of inter-dealer repo transactions on the Money market amounted to RUB1,188 billion (42.4% from the total trading volume), volume of direct repo transactions with the Bank of Russia - RUB1,500 billion (53.5%), volume of Bank of Russia's deposit operations - RUB117 billion (4.2%) (including Bank of Russia's deposits of RUB116 billion.).

Commodities market trading volume totaled RUB1,072 million last week. The average daily trading volume was RUB268 million, up 20.2% from the previous week.