Forts up 30% so far this year
Russian Trading System’s futures and options market Forts had 48.7m contracts traded in August, worth Rb2.246tr ($73bn). The number of contracts was 17% more than in August 2009, though 2.4% lower than July’s volume.
Year to date volume is 373m contracts, 29.5% more than were traded in the first eight months of 2009.
Open interest is Rb189.1bn ($6.1bn) or 6.1m contracts, 3% more than at the end of July.
Of the August volume, Rb300.9bn...