A negative general market trend in August 2010 caused by the reduction of oil prices and the continuing alarms on the recovery of the US economy failed to impact on RTS volumes, which rose during the month.
The leading RTS Index lost 3.95% during August, reaching 1,421.21 points. In August 2010 RTS volumes were up 7.31% over the previous month. Total RTS Exchange and OTC market activity grew to USD53.43 billion during August 2010.
Activity on Futures and Options on RTS (FORTS) during August fell 2.62% to 46.9 million contracts compared with July 2010.
Full statistics are provided in the accompanying tables.