Moscow exchange held its first formal session on the stock market. Brokers say the low activity at the first auction, the volume of which amounted to 3.3% of the session. Later, however, they expect growth of interest, including in connection with the possibility to make transactions with stocks from the S&P 500 index. The exchange estimates that momentum into the evening session can reach 8-19% of the turnover in the afternoon session.Monday, June 22, on the stock market of the Moscow exchange in addition to the main trading session, which runs from 10:00 to 18:50, became available the evening trading session from 19:00 to 23:50. According to the results of the meeting had been concluded 44.8 thousand transactions in the auction was attended by 14 thousand clients 53 banks and brokerage firms. The total volume of trade amounted to 2.1 billion rubles, which amounted to 3.3% of the total trading volume for the day.Currently, during evening trading, it is possible to perform operations on the 25 most liquid stocks from the index of the Moscow exchange. Until the end of the year in the list of trading tools includes all of the stocks in the index (38 shares), as well as 50 of the most liquid foreign stocks from the S&P 500 index. Leaders by volume of operations on the first evening of the session were VTB, BCS, “Renaissance Capital”, “Finam” and Sberbank. As market makers were “ALOR+”, “Intrast”, “Renaissance Broker” and “Univer Capital”.The first day of trading activity was minimal, it is quite expected, because “many investors don’t know about the start of the evening session”, said head of monitoring, control and development of customer service “Finam” Dmitry Lesnov. He noted that while the volatility remains extremely low — in the range of 0.5% for the most liquid instruments. Only in the first evening session of the company registered more than 170 new clients, but only on the stock exchange was registered about 700 new clients-individuals. Dmitry Lesnov believes that the evening session will expand trade opportunities for Russian and foreign investors, as the domestic market, to a certain extent responds to events in Europe and in the United States, which played the global market after the closing of the Russian platforms.While market participants expect over time to increase trading volumes. Expects Mr. Lisnow, the improvement of liquidity situation will increase the interest from non-residents. Assessment Igor Pimenova, in the future, the momentum can grow up to 7-10% of the afternoon session. Earlier the Director of Department of stock market of the Moscow exchange Boris Blokhin said that the share of trading volume in the evening session of the total trading volume of equity securities may be comparable with the relevant indicators and the urgent currency market and to be 8-19% main afternoon session.Polina Smorodskaya
