Actuality November, 28, 2007

On the largest Russian stock exchange, trading derivatives, – on the FO RTS market – can be introduced the round-the-clock futures trading on

RTS index. Th is contract is the most liquid instrument at the deriv

ative market, and shifting to the round-the-clock trade is actual for the investors, experts consider.

Starting a project, RTS tries to fix the positions on

the stock market.

FORTS derivative market is the largest Russian platfrom for derivatives’ trading (90% of stock exchange turnover at the Russian market). 58 contracts to securities, interest rates, currency, precious metals, diesel fuel, oil, sugar and indices are traded on FORTS now.

According to the results of 3Q 2007 the trade volume on the derivative market exceeded $166 bln. Avarege daily volume of open positions under standard contracts totaled $8 bln in September, 2007.