MOEX March Volumes Mixed, FX Inches Up, Derivates Volumes Dip from February

[kreslik.news]

Russia’s key financial bourse, Moscow Exchange, listed under ticker symbol MOEX, has today released March trading volumes which showed improvements in key segments when compared February’s results, as well as year-over-year (YoY) gains of 43.4% when compared to March 2015, and coupled with some mixed results both month-over-month (MoM), and YoY, as seen below.

FX Market turnover rose 40.3% to RUB 30.8 trillion year-over-year from 22 trillion, yet was little-changed MoM from RUB 30.5 trillion in February, up barely eight-tenths of a percent.

Spot trades fell to RUB 10.8 trillion from RUB 12.4 trillion in February, yet swap trades increased to ... (read more)