The "second-tier" stock index – RTS-2 – is down by 0,51% to 2451,00 (2463,47 as of March 28th, 2008). Most of the economy sectors represented on the Russian stock market demonstrated a negative trend last week. The largest drop was registered in Consumer & Retail sector. RTS Index - Consumer & Retail is down by 2,70%. However, positive dynamics was shown by Financials and Telecom, the corresponding Indices grew by 1,68% and 0,07% respectively.

For the week of March 31st – April 04th the total trading volume on RTS equaled 6,9 bln. dollars (162,4 bln. rubles*), including all types of trades.

The top sellers of the week were Sberbank ordinary shares (SBER) – $62,085 mln., Gazprom ordinary shares (GAZP) – $35,384 mln., followed by RAO UESR ordinary shares (EESR) - $34,499 mln. The share of each security in the trading volume made up 25,72%, 14,66% and 14,29% accordingly.

The top gainers of the week were JSC "TGK-11" ordinary shares (TGKK) that went up by 13,33% and reached $0,00136, JSC Uralkali ordinary shares (URKA) that gained 10,71% and reached $9,30 ordinary shares of Korshynov Mining Plant ОАО (KOGK) that were up by 10,34% and reached $3200,00.

The top losers of the week were ordinary shares of Moscow City Electricity Distribution Company (MGRS) that fell in price by 9,09% and reached $0,06, ordinary shares of OJSC Lebedyansky (LEKZ) that went down by 8,03% and reached $83,00 and privileged shares of URSA Bank (URSAP) that shed 7,69% and reached $1,20. -- www.rts.ru