Moscow Exchange Trading Volumes in August 2022

In August 2022, total trading volumes across Moscow Exchange’s markets grew by 7.3% to RUB 81.2 trln (RUB 75.7 in July 2022). Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance for August 2022 and all comparisons are with July 2022.

Top risers in trading volumes were the Bond Market (up 35.9%), Precious Metals Market (up 21.3%), FX Market (up 20.4%), Equity & Bond Market (up 15.5%) and Money Market (up 5.5%).
Equity & Bond Market

Total trading volume on the Equity and Bond Market in August 2022 increased by 25.4% to RUB 1,872.1 bln (July 2022: RUB 1,492.7 bln), hereinafter excluding overnight bonds.

Trading volume in shares, DRs and investment fund units rose by 15.5% to RUB 887.0 bln (July 2022: RUB 767.7 bln). ADTV was RUB 38.6 bln (July 2022: RUB 36.6 bln).

Turnover in corporate, regional and sovereign bonds grew by 35.9% to RUB 985.1 bln (July 2022: RUB 725.0 bln). ADTV was RUB 42.8 bln (July 2022: RUB 34.5 bln).

57 new bond issues with a combined value of RUB 1,183.9 bln (of which overnight bonds accounted for RUB 700.1 bln) were placed in August 2022.

Derivatives market

The trading volume was RUB 4.9 trln (July 2022: RUB 6.4 trln). ADTV was RUB 210.9 bln (July 2022: RUB 304.4 bln).

FX Market

FX Market trading volume grew by 20.4% to RUB 20.9 trln (July 2022: RUB 17.3 trln). Spot trading volumes increased by 1.9% to RUB 8.4 trln, and swap trades and forwards added 37.2% to RUB 12.5 trln.

ADTV was RUB 906.9 (July 2022: RUB 824.9 bln).

Money Market

Money Market turnover grew 5.5% to RUB 52.9 trln (July 2022: RUB 50.2 trln). ADTV was RUB 2,301.5 bln (July 2022: RUB 2,389.6 bln).

The CCP-cleared repo segment added 5.4% to reach RUB 25.0 trln, including the GCC repo segment which increased by 8.9% to RUB 13.2 trln.

Precious Metals Market

Turnover in precious metals (spot and swaps) was up 21.3% to RUB 12.3 bln (July 2022: RUB 10.1 bln), of which RUB 11.9 bln (3.5 t) was gold and RUB 0.4 bln (9.6 t) was silver.