Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natalia Burkova Author-Name-First: Natalia Author-Name-Last: Burkova Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Elizaveta Khudko Author-Name-First: Elizaveta Author-Name-Last: Khudko Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Financial Markets Abstract: In October 2012, continuing instability of the global economy has resulted in the sustained high volatility of the Russian financial market. The average daily turnover of the government securities market has increased by 51% over the month, while the turnover in the RF securities market has decreased by 23%, and by 3.8% in futures market. In the domestic corporate bond market the key monetary indicators: market volume and index, the activity of issuers and investors in the primary and secondary market were growing. At the same time, a decline was observed in the average daily market yield. Classification-JEL: G1, G3, G15 Keywords: Financial Markets Journal:Russian Economic Developments Year: 2012 Issue: 11 Month: October Pages: 16-24 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/14Burkova.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:14