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Source: Moscow Exchange – Moscow Exchange –
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On March 28–29, 2026, the Moscow Exchange held its first weekend bond trading. Investors were able to trade all bonds admitted to the Moscow Exchange's main trading session, with settlements in Russian rubles and Chinese yuan.
The first trading weekend demonstrated the demand for the new service: 48,000 private investors concluded debt instrument transactions, accounting for 97% of the total transaction volume.
Bond trading volume during the first weekend amounted to 2.5 billion rubles, which is approximately 10% of the average daily volume of stock and unit investment transactions on weekends since the beginning of this year.
The launch of weekend bond trading complements existing offerings: since March 2025, the exchange has offered weekend trading of shares and mutual funds, and since August 2025, futures and options.
Trading on the Moscow Exchange's stock and derivatives markets is conducted on Saturdays and Sundays under the same trading hours as on weekdays, from 9:50 AM to 7:00 PM Moscow time. To reduce the risk of price fluctuations during weekend trading, price limits on the stock market are set at 3% of the previous trading day's closing price. On the derivatives market, price limits for each instrument group (indices, stocks, and commodities) are narrowed relative to the price limits determined during the evening clearing session of the previous business day and remain unchanged. Risk parameters or instrument parameters are not subject to change during weekend trading.
In both market segments, there is an increase in investor interest in weekend trading: the average daily trading volume of shares on weekends is 7.7% of the average daily trading volume on weekdays, and for futures and options it is 2.1%.
The Moscow Exchange Debt Market is Russia's leading platform for raising funds for governments and businesses, combining developed infrastructure, reliability and guarantees, and cutting-edge bond trading technologies. Moscow Exchange trades bonds with outstanding volumes equivalent to almost a third of GDP. Its portfolio of over 4,000 instruments issued by 500 issuers includes government and corporate bonds, as well as complex debt instruments. Over 1.7 million private investors trade bonds on Moscow Exchange. In 2025, bond trading volume reached a record 42 trillion rubles, and the average daily volume since the beginning of 2026 has exceeded 150 billion rubles.
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