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The RTS index is an instrument reflecting the market capitalization of the Russia’s largest companies. It includes the following indexes: RTSI, RTST, S&P/RUX, S&P/RUX-OIL and Rux-Cbonds.

RTSI is a legal indicator of the RTS stock exchange. It was introduced on the 1st September 1995 with the primary notion of 100 points. The index is calculated during the trading session with each price change of any of the instruments listed for calculation in this index, with it’s first value denoting it’s opening price and the last one – of the closing time.

RTST (the RTS technical index) is calculated by the RTC agency – Interfax of each minute during the trading session (from 11.00 till 18.00).

S&P/RUX – is calculated by the Index agency of the RTS-Interfax and was therefore primarily called the consolidated RTC-Interfax. The primary index notion was 100 and was dated on the 5th of January 1998. The RUX index is calculated in the RUR and the USD.

S&P/RUIX-OIL – is based on the method of weighing based on the market cost of the most requested stocks of the oil industry. The prices weighing is carried out based on the volume of the stocks emitted and indexed in the list.

Rux-Cbonds, calculated by the Interfax and Sbonds.ru and Index agency RTS, is a weighed based on the effective (market) capitalization, that are rotated on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and are listed in the quotations lists of this stock exchange.

RTS – is the Russian Trading System, founded in 1995. The aim of founding this Stock exchange was the creation of a common structured market of stocks by merging several regional stock exchanges that existed before.