(Vienna) The Vienna Stock Exchange today announces that as of 20 May 2008 it will be expanding its index range by including a new real-time Index, the RTX MID – Russian Traded Mid Cap Index. The RTX MID is a capitalization-weighted price index and is calculated in EUR, USD and RUB; it consists of the stocks with the liveliest trading volumes and highest capitalization listed on the MICEX, but not included in the RTX.
The index has been designed as a tradable index and the RTX MID may be used as an underlying for structured products and for standardized derivatives such as futures and options. The starting value of the RTX MID was defined at 1,000 index points on 3 January 2005. Decisions on changes are taken on a quarterly basis by the Index Committee.