Last Tuesday the fall of Russian stock market has continued at an accelerated pace. Do note – all of the required prerequisites have appeared to propel the fall. Virtually all sides of the market were hit with negative issues. First of all – the general tense military-political environment in the world – such as uncertainty [...]

Monday’s environment of Russian stock market was flagged by an extremely low activity of participants. However, the movement vector of most of the quotes was moving upwards and only during the last half hour of trades, it changed course, now moving towards the bottom. The positive movement during the early trades could have been related [...]

Earlier this July Sibirtelecom issued a financial report under IAS-compliant financial year 2007. The results in general are quite strong – Sibirtelecom demonstrated one of the top rates of sales increase (among fellow IRCs). More to that – OIBDA margin growth rate has also proved to be highest, adding +9.1 p.p. to 33.6%.
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Last Friday had failed to form a single trend. On one hand – external factors were quite sound. DJ added +0.72% and NASDAQ upped +1.03%, Europe’s indicators had also demonstrated a moderate growth. However, commodities market’s situation was not as sound. Brent oil brand’s prices have dropped to 109 USD during the day, metals market [...]

The considerably overbought Russian stocks, of then-backed Georgia-Ossetia conflict, were compensating for the drop of quotes yesterday. Primary growth hit the securities of oil & gas sector. Thursday’s compensation was boosted by the news on increasing oil price, caused by data on reduction of US reserves. More to that – the absence of news off [...]

Last Tuesday, MTS has published its financial results for 2Q and 1H 2008 under US GAAP report. The company has demonstrated good dynamics at all markets, where company runs its business. Among the positive results are: revenue (+10.8% against 1Q 2008), totaling higher than 2.5 bn USD. Moreover, MTS has all opportunities to reach revenue [...]

The worsening background of external environment, such as the negatively closing primary foreign indices; was propelling Wednesday’s trades of Russian market to start through a slight fall. Aside of that – the criticism of US government of Russian government actions over Georgia-Ossetia conflict came up around the lunch break, further worsening the negative trend. Bad [...]

The market of mineral fertilizers currently undergoes the most interesting period of its existence. Like never before world’s population is close to food crisis, or at least – the high inflation of foods due to active consumption of farming products over last few years. Such background, including undersupply and decrease of farmable grounds, make agrochemical [...]

The start of trades throughout Russian stock grounds was rather controversial, due to uncertainties over Georgia-Ossetia conflict zone. However, RF’s president on completion of a peacekeeping operation in Caucasus region, provoking a significant growth of primary range of liquid stocks. Pushing up the quotes of oil & gas companies over +3%, in despite the fact [...]

The beginning of trading session this Monday was rather unlucky for Russian stock market. Slammed by events in South Ossetia and strong criticism of Russia’s peacekeepers by western media – have seriously expanded political and military risks of country. Russia’s very own investment appeal suffered badly, due to background of Georgia-South Ossetia conflict. Western investors [...]

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