Standard & Poor's signed an agreement today with the Russian Trading...

Standard & Poor's signed an agreement today with the Russian Trading System Stock Exchange that will add the RTS index to S&P's global index lineup, confirmed David Guarino, S&P spokesman. Under the agreement, S&P has exclusive rights for distributing, providing, licensing, marketing and publicizing the indexes. S&P will manage the licensing of the RTS index to investment managers, trading desk and other product developers. The index covers about 80% of the Russian stock market capitalization.