Following the world’s stock markets, Russian market opened at a downward gap last Friday. Towards noon RTS dropped to the level of early May, sloping below 2300 points. However, the positive support by statistics of US population income and expense provoked another wave of optimism. As a result – the morning’s shortcomings were compensated. Aside [...]

Yesterday Russian stock market was rather volatile, failing to form a single trend. Since the very morning the background of latter dropping oil has been changed by the growth of the indicator towards the noon. The market was rejuvenated by the appearing positive trend over the oil quotes. However, the negative influence off European markets [...]

NOVATEK’s IAS-compliant net income of 1Q of 2008 increased by 72.6% in comparison with the same period of 2007 – to 7.503 bn RUR, indicates the company’s report and it is higher than our forecasts by 5.3% (7.116 bn RUR).
S NOVATEK’s income rose by +36.8% – to 20.876 bn RUR and [...]

Tuesday’s outsiders have proved to be the most attractive assets for purchase yesterday. Throughout the day the quotes of Gazprom and Sberbank have been raised the most. Whereas the stocks of Open Investments were hit by income fix, after an over 10% growth. Towards the middle of the day the growth of indicator has been [...]

Yesterday Russian stock market took on a sliding path. The negative trends were reinforced after the decrease of EU indices down -0.5-1%, whilst backed by strong oil price and drop of Germany consumer trust index. The publication of US consumer trust index, dropping to the lowest of past 16 years and also a record decrease [...]

During 2007 Gazprom Neft upped its US GAAP-compliant net income by +13.2% versus 2006, to 4.143 bn USD. The sales of the company expanded by +6.1% to 21.1 bn USD. Operating income rose by +12.2% to 4.899 bn USD, EBITDA +12.8% to 5.828 bn USD. Financial results of the company appeared above our expectations at [...]

This Monday Rosneft issued its financial report of 1Q 2008. According to the report – oil company’s net income upped over 7 times versus similar term of 2007 from 0.358 bn USD to 2.564 bn USD. However the net income of 1Q 2008 has been dropped -13.1% versus 4Q 2007 (2.952 bn USD).
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This Monday, just as we have expected – Russian stock market continued its movement downwards. The top fall leaders were manned by stocks of electric companies, WGC-2 and WGC-5 in particular, which have demonstrated a dramatic growth last week. Despite of positive dynamics of oil price, LUKOIL’s stocks continue to fall for fourth day in [...]

According to 2007 results, Aeroflot’s income appeared to be at the expected level and formed 3,807 mn USD, which is by 28% higher than in 2006. The transfer of passengers is by 20% higher than it was planned, due to favorable situation at the air services market. The fleet renewal, new planes and implementation of [...]

Under the influence of all the external negative background – market players started playing at market’s general market overheating. Since the very start of the trading session RTS took on a downward sail, following the path almost whole day. Some sloping hit almost all of blue chips. Besides of that, do note that stocks of [...]

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