Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes in August 2015

Moscow Exchange (ticker: MOEX) announces trading volumes for August 2015. The Derivatives Market and FX Market posted the strongest growth, with volumes increasing 200.9% and 86.7% YoY, respectively. Equity trading volumes rose 17.4% YoY.

Equity & Bond Market

Secondary market turnover in stocks, RDRs and investment fund units was RUB 798.9 bln. (August 2014: RUB 680.4 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 38.0 bln (August 2014: RUB 32.4 bln).

Secondary corporate, regional and sovereign bond turnover was RUB 631.8 bln (August 2014: RUB 628.3 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 30.1 bln (August 2014: RUB 29.9 bln).

A total of 13 new bond issues with a combined value of RUB 116.7 bln were placed in August.

Derivatives Market

Derivatives Market volumes rose 200.9% YoY to RUB 11.7 trln (August 2014: RUB 3.9 trln), or 188.8 mln contracts (August 2014: 99.4 mln contracts), of which 183.4 mln contracts were futures and 5.5 mln contracts were options.

Open interest at the end of the month was RUB 695.3 bln (August 2014: RUB 522.6 bln).

FX Market

FX Market turnover grew 86.7% to RUB 31.7 trln (August 2014: RUB 17.0 trln), including spot trades of RUB 11.6 trln and swap trades of RUB 20.1 trln.

The FX Market's average daily turnover was RUB 1,508.3 bln (USD 23.0 bln) compared to RUB 807.8 bln in August 2014.

Money Market

Money Market turnover totalled RUB 15.1 trln (August 2014: RUB 15.5 trln). The average daily turnover was RUB 719.6 bln (August 2014: RUB 737.3 bln).

The volume of repo transactions with the CCP was RUB 5.8 trln (August 2014: RUB 2.2 trln), with the average daily turnover increasing by 160% YoY to RUB 273.9 bln.

Precious Metals Market

Trading volumes on the Precious Metals Market increased nearly 7 times to RUB 10.7 bln YoY. Turnover was RUB 10.7 bln (4.6 t) for gold and RUB 4.6 mln (143 kg) for silver.

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