Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes up 24% YoY in December

Moscow Exchange's turnover increased 24% YoY in December to RUB 46.6 trln.

Equities & Bonds
Turnover in stocks, RDRs, and investment fund units totalled RUB 750 bln (December 2012: RUB 615 bln). The average daily turnover was RUB 36 bln.

Total secondary market turnover in corporate bonds and OFZs came to RUB 1.03 trln (December 2012: RUB 1.3 trln). The average daily turnover was RUB 49 bln.

A total of 31 new bond issues (including OFZs) with a combined value of RUB 271 bln were placed during the month.

Derivatives
Derivatives market turnover was RUB 3.6 trln (December 2012: RUB 3.3 bln) or 83.9 mln contracts (December 2012: 75.8 mln contracts), of which RUB 3.2 trln were futures and RUB 377 bln were options. Open interest was RUB 390 bln at the end of December.

FX
FX market turnover in December was RUB 16.9 trln (December 2012: RUB 10.6 trln), including spot trades of RUB 5.0 trln (29.5% of the total) and swap trades of RUB 11.9 trln (70.5%).
The FX market's average daily turnover was RUB 803 bln.

Money market
The volume of repo transactions with the Central Counterparty (CCP) reached a record RUB 853 bln. Average daily turnover reached RUB 41 bln.

Money market turnover totalled RUB 24.1 trln (December 2012: RUB 21.4 trln). The average daily turnover was RUB 1.2 trln.

More detailed market statistics are available on Moscow Exchange's website.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About Moscow Exchange
OJSC Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS ("MOEX") operates Russia's largest public trading markets for equity, bond, derivative, foreign exchange and money market products, as well as Russia's Central Securities Depository (CSD) and the country's largest clearing service provider, National Clearing Centre. At the end of 2012, it ranked among the world's top-20 exchanges for equity trading by market capitalization and among the top-10 for bond trading by trading volume and for exchange-traded derivatives by number of contracts traded. Moscow Exchange has 716 issuers listed on its securities exchange, including many of Russia's largest companies.

Moscow Exchange was formed in December 2011 as a result of a merger between Russia's two main exchange groups. The merger brought together MICEX Group, the oldest domestic exchange and operator of the leading securities, foreign exchange and money market platform in Russia, and the RTS Group, at the time the operator of Russia's leading derivatives market. This combination created a vertically integrated public trading market across most major asset classes. Following the merger the company became an open joint stock company (OJSC) and was named Moscow Exchange. Moscow Exchange completed an initial public offering of its shares on 15 February 2013.

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