Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Company News

Annual turnover of “Yandex” has grown by 14% and amounted to 8.7 billion rubles

Saturday, March 6, 2010 10:16

The annual turnover of Yandex, according to preliminary estimates, in comparison with 2008 increased by 14% and amounted to 8.7 billion rubles. As before, most of the company"s revenues - about 86% - brings contextual advertising. Another about 11% - in media, said the report "Yandex". "Contextual advertising has confirmed its sustainability as a business model, - says Alexey Tretyakov, commercial director of the company. - During the crisis, many advertisers have chosen her among all advertising mediums. Contextual advertising on" Yandex "allows you to tightly control the budget and addressed the most concerned part of the audience. Therefore, even those advertisers who have been forced to cut their advertising budgets will be treated to the context. The crisis has affected the average amount of advertising budget on one client - it has decreased, but the total number of clients increased from 2009 by 55%. For 2009 Yandex display ads, more than 120 thousands of advertisers. " Internet advertising - the only sector which showed growth against the backdrop of general decline in the advertising market in 2009.

In 2000-2009 years “Tatneft” saved about 1.6 million tons of fuel with a program of energy saving

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 14:17

OAO Tatneft in 2010, completes the second stage of a comprehensive energy conservation program in effect since 2000. During this period the company held a large complex of measures to reduce energy consumption, the report said "Tatneft". Saved about 1 million 600 thousand tons of fuel equivalent, or 18% of the consumption of fuel and energy resources. Specific power consumption for oil production in recent years has been steadily declining, the report reads. With the implementation of complex interventions, such as the use of hourly electricity planning the day ahead, holding the adjustment measures for the optimum rate, the rising cost of ef85lectricity for Tatneft in the past year amounted to 14,6% - despite the fact that energy prices approved for industrial enterprises of the republic of Tatarstan grew by 25%. Over the past five years the share of energy in the structure of operating costs increased from 8% to 13% and subject to the further growth rate by 2015 it could exceed 20%.

Railways and the Austrian Alpine Bau GmbH have created a joint venture to build two tunnels for the Olympic Games in Sochi

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:16

Company RZhDstroy "(a subsidiary of OAO RZD) and the Austrian Alpine Bau GmbH have established a joint venture with Alpine-RZhDstroy, which will participate in the implementation of infrastructure projects in Russia, Europe and third countries," the report said Railways. JV was created with the participation of the President of JSC "RZD" Vladimir Yakunin and the equity owner and chairman of the supervisory board of Alpine Dietmar Alyuty-Oltian, clarifies the company"s announcement. first projects, which will take part of joint venture, will build the tunnel AlpTransit Brenner Baulos A1 - Grundausryustung in Tyrol and the construction of two tunnels in Sochi, which are the infrasf73tructure for the Olympic Games in 2014. Appropriate memorandums of participation in these projects were signed today in Vienna. "Cooperation with Alpine means for us new opportunities to manage construction projects using advanced technologies.

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Bidding on the market place against a background of high volatility, the leaders reduction Rosneft and Gazprom Neft

Monday, March 8, 2010 13:16

U.S. markets open in the "plus" Today, we expect a positive opening on U.S. markets. In the first minutes of trading the major indexes can add about 0.5%, after which the players will draw attention to statistics on an index of business activity in manufacturing (ISM Index, is expected to 55.2 points, the previous value of 55.9 points) in January, leaving at 18.00 MSK. to define further the dynamics of the markets. It should be noted that the players continue to ignore the statements of U.S. companies and are waiting for Paul Volcker"s speech in Congress, which will be held Zavriev. traded on the American sites have opened growth of the major indexes, helped by data on U.S. GDP for the fourth quarter, which turned out better than expected. In the future markets have been supported by positive data on business activity index of Chicago and University of Michigan consumer sentiment, but it was not enough to continue growth. After the first hour of trading, during which the main indexes added about 1%, the markets faced a wave of sales. As a result, by the middle of the day indices returned to levels close Thursday, and at the end of trading left in negative territory. As a result, the indices Dow Jones and S P500 lost 0,53% and 0,98% respectively, the NASDAQ index fell 1.45%. Today, the morning session, the index futures on S P500 showed restoration of quotations, but after the release of statistics on an index of personal spending, there has been a slight decrease, resulting in a 17.00 contract is trading at 1,075.5 points. Meanwhile, Russia"s market returned to morning levels. By the current moment the MICEX index lost about 1%, dropping to a level of 1405.7 points. In leaders reduction Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, losing more than 2%. Better the market looks the regional telecom sector, the paper which demonstrate the growth of quotations. Itf1cshould be noted that bidding in the market place against a background of high volatility. Additional portion of "noise" comes on the market after the index of ISM. This statistics is likely to determine the dynamics of our sites at the closing. log in and see the material;; 1; user rated material at 3. Analyst Ratings

Lose in a price rally metallurgical companies: NLMK (-3.9%), Severstal (-2.9%), MMC Norilsk Nickel (-1.6%)

Monday, March 8, 2010 3:12

Good statistics on U.S. GDP, and also be better than expected consumer sentiment index and the University of Michigan index of business activity in the manufacturing sector, calculated by the Chicago Association of managers have not helped the U.S. market to remain in positive zone. The euphoria of the positive statistics closer to the end of the trading has been replaced by concerns about the situation in the euro area and the possibility of lowering the estimates for GDP, as was done in the III quarter. Adds the negative statements by the government of the PRC that the monetary authorities of China may resort to raising rates sooner than it will make the U.S. Federal Reserve. This will happen if the "consumer price inflation will exceed the level of the annual rate on bank deposits for two consecutive months. Meanwhile, according to Chinese authorities, Chinese banks have followed the requirements of collapse after a sharp increase in lending volume of loans disbursed during the first week of January and raised the reserve requirements as a result of the end of January the volume of loans fell sharply. Chinese stock market looks today, worse than other Asian sites, CSI 300 index fell 1.61%. European markets look fairly stable, the pan-European index Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is reduced by 0.44%. Banks, despite the news from China, are growing up. Barclays 2%, Royal Bank of Scotland 1.9%, Commerzbank 1.6%, Deutsche Bank 1.2%. Oil remains at the local minima with rising dollar. Spot Brent $ 71.62, WTI $ 72.89, futures in positive territory at 0.8%. Rossyisky market opened 1% lower against the external negative, then tried to close the gap, but by the middle of the day again went to the opening levels. At 15:30 the MICEX index decreased by 1.4%, RTS index at 1.24%. Trading volume on the MICEX stock market average, 28 billion rubles. Much better than the market looking like the action of the regional telecom. No news on the sector, no, the players expect that the coefficients of exchange of shares of MRK shares of Svyazinvest will be beneficial to holders of preferred shares of MRK. "Pref Uralsvyazinform grow at 7.2%, SPC at 7.3%, Sibirtelecom 6.9%. strong enough now looks Gazprom, some support for the shares of the company has records for III quarter of IFRS. In this case it is difficult to assess unambiguously. Net profit rose 33% over the same period in 2008, but the main factor that influenced the size of the net profit has become currency translation gain of $ 42.5 bil. against losses of 35.8 billion rubles. year earlier. Revenues decreased by 7%, EBITDA declined by 41%. It shares the largest oil companies are falling,Rosneft -3% -2.4% Gazprom Neft, LUKOIL -2%. Also losing in the price of shares of steel companies, NLMK -3.9%, -2.9% Severstal, Norilsk Nickel -1.6%. Before the opening of trading in the U.S. market continues to oscillations around the mark of 1400 points on the MICEX, and then will wait for data on personal spending /income from the U.S. and reporting the largest oil and gas companies of Russia and the United States. In addition to Gazprom Rosneft will report in the United States will publish the results of Exxon Mobil. In addition to statistics on expenditures and household income, which will be released at 16:30, at 18:00 waiting for data on construction spending and the index of activity in the manufacturing sector ISM. While our market does not want to go below 1400 points, any reduction in the players quickly redeem. This is facilitated by a large amount of free liquidity and low interest rates on the interbank market. However, the fundamental situation is complicated, in addition to oil we should put pressure dynamics of the American market, which struck uptrend. If in the coming days, players in the United States will continue to play a fall, we follow them. log in and see the material;; 2; user rated material 5. Analyst Ratings

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Latin America: Brazil helped unemployment, Chile prevent industrial production

Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:17

  Thursday, January 28, the main share indexes of Latin America have finished day with multidirectional dynamics. indicator of equity market of Brazil Bovespa rose by 0,8% to a mark of 65 587.81 points. Brazilian Real with weakened to 0.38% to 1,866 reais per dollar. strong support markets has reduced unemployment in the country in December to a record low 6.8%, and the words of representatives of Bank of America that the key interest rate Brazil will remain at a minimum value until June of this year. Shares steelmaker CSN have added 2.9%, while its rival Usiminas increased by 2.4% on expectations of strengthening demand for cars and homes due to low interest rates and the stabilization of the labor market. Quotes bank Itau Unibanco Holding jumped 3%, while the owner of the largest in Latin America Stock Exchange BM FBovespa became heavier at 3.3%. Papers cargo container terminal operator Santos Brasil Participacoes, however, have fallen by 6,1% against the publication of 4 quarter loss of $ 5.3 million reais ($ 2.83 million), against analysts expected profit of 16.3 million reais .

United States: the Fed does not expect big surprises, but the bulls in any case excluded themselves

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:14

  Tuesday, 26 January, the U.S. market finished the trading session in a small minus in spite of the fact that most of the auctions the index rose. In the course of the session contributed to the dominance of bulls released at 18:00 IST statistics on consumer confidence in January - the index rose 3 points to a mark of 55.9 points and was on average 4.5% better than expectations. Among-reporting companies were more of those who managed to beat forecasts - Apple, Travelers, Tellabs, Corning. Nevertheless, in the last hour of trading the oxen chose to take profits in anticipation of the coming meeting of the Fed. While a rate hike at this meeting, no one expects today"s session could go in unpredictable ways, because the investment environment are waiting for hints from the Fed with regard to phasing out the monetary incentive. Following the session, the indicator of blue chips Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 2.57 points, or 0.03% to a level of 10,194.29 points, the index is a broad market Standard Poor "s 500 has decreased by 4.61 points, or 0.42% to a mark 1,092.17 points and the index of high-technology Nasdaq Composite went in at minus 7.07 points, or 0.32% to 2,203.73 points mark. On the commodity market, the March crude oil futures for light on the results of the auctions on NYMEX fell 0,7% to a level of $ 74.71 per barrel. Gold for February delivery, which added 0.2% to a level of $ 1,098.30 per troy ounce. &l1000t;br>The financial sector led the correctional movement, stepping on 1,7% in the broad market index against the backdrop of continuing concerns about threats to Obama push hard for the regulation.

Technical Analysis of American Depository Receipts Vale

Monday, February 22, 2010 11:16

  Our assumptions regarding the movement of American depositary receipts of Brazilian mining company Vale, presented in the preceding analysis, justified. Prices for some time stayed close to the level of 26,50, and then slowly continued their upward movement and reached the mark in 30,65, where the level of 61,8% of Fibonacci (Fig. 1). However, to break the resistance specified ADRs failed, and they rushed back to the level of 50% Fibonacci. Fig. 1 Weekly dynamics ADRs Vale     Source: Reuters   Currently the weekly chart convergence of moving averages with a period of 8 and 21 indicates a weakening of the uptrend (Fig. 1). Lines MACD indicator on the weekly chart (Figure 2) intersected, which is usually a strong enough signal to sell. However, other indicators are presented in Fig. 2, have not confirmed such an action. Thus, the line changes direction indicator is located above the DM-DM, and the line ADX, despite the reversal, had no time to drop significantly, slowing their movement. The Stochastic RSI oscillator is also on its way down met with resistance and had swept away the wave number of ardor. Nevertheless, it is worth noting divergence observed in the graphs of prices and the RSI indicator and marked in Fig. 3 purple lines. Thus, the price on the weekly schedule from November last year, continues to conquer new peaks, while the corresponding local maxima of a stochastic oscillator under consideration, on the contrary, showing a decrease. This movement is usually a sign of price stabilization, which may be follo1000wed by a strong correction.   Fig. 2 Indicators DM and-DM, ADX, MACD, RSI (weekly Dynamics)     Source: Reuters   Fig. 3 Weekly dynamics ADRs Vale and Stochastics RSI     Source: Reuters   Thus, the analysis of weekly charts of price movements of American depositary receipts of Brazilian mining company Vale can be concluded a possible correction, indicated by the convergence of exponential moving averages, the divergence of timetables, prices and an indicator RSI, and intersections of lines MACD. The closest level of support will make a mark in 26,58 (50% Fibonacci). Close to the specified value at the moment are moving average with period 21 and the centerline of Bollinger Bands (Fig. 4), which can also act as a support when moving downwards. In the case of crossing the midline of Bollinger Bands is possible to reduce to the lower limit. If the RSI indicator will turn up, and following its peak corresponding to a new high in the chart price will lie above the previous one, then we can talk about the end of the correction and extension of the current uptrend.

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People and companies

Monday, March 1, 2010 8:11

 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved the composition of the new governmental commission on economic development and integration . Vice-chairman of the commission, headed by first deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov, was appointed first deputy prime minister Viktor Zubkov. He is the head of the subcommittee on customs-tariff and nontariff regulation, protective measures in foreign trade. The commission also included the head of the Ministry of Regional Development Viktor Basargin, Director, Department of Economics and Finance, Government Minister Andrei Belousov, Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister - Head of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Elvira Nabiullina, Deputy Prime Minister - Head Government Staff Sergei Sabyanin, Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko, head Minpromtorg Viktor Khristenko, as well as the Rector of the Academy of National Economy Vladimir Mau.

The Ukrainian stock market on Wednesday remained “bullish” sentiment on domestic demand

Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:14

Ukrainian stock market on Wednesday continued its growth in the high activity of domestic investors: the outcome of the day index of "Ukrainian Stock Exchange, rose by 1,13% - to 1672.78 points, the PFTS index - by 0,6%, to 632.82 item. As the investment adviser IR Dragon Capital Vyacheslav Urluk, trades on the Ukrainian stock markets opened on a moderately negative external background: American indexes lower on the eve of the opening and most European and Russian platforms in the "red zone" contributed to making the most of the morning quotes liquid securities went below the closing on Tuesday. However, by mid trading session, bulls on domestic platforms seized the initiative and returned to the market in "green zone". As the analyst, the main growth indices Ukrainian sites took place, primarily due to increased interest of players to stock steel companies, securities of the banking sector and mechanical engineering. In addition, increased interest in the shares of the "second tier". All papers index basket on Wednesday closed in positive territory. As participants in the market, have fallen in price only paper "Ukrnafta (-1.44%), which adjusted the post of 25% rally Tuesday on news of the meeting of shareholders, has taken sever1000al important decisions, including the payment of dividends for 2006-2008 gg. However, it is estimated Urluk, the further direction of the Ukrainian stock market is still in question, and on Thursday the market is likely to be quite volatile. analyst at investment group "TASK" said Vyacheslav Ivanishin moderately negative vneshnyayu conjuncture during the trading session on the Ukrainian stock exchanges. Thus, data on the confidence of French consumers to the economy of the country in January were better than expected, but the markets have ignored them, European stock indices continued to trade in negative zone. Trading session on the U.S. stock markets opened with a moderate decrease. However Urluk predicts that mixed external background and fall of American indexes after U.S. statistics on new construction sites worse than forecast, perhaps, on Thursday will be offset by strong demand for some paper sector Mining, Engineering, and shares Ukrnafta in anticipation of the closure of the register of shareholders for dividends. In addition, he said, additional support for the markets on Thursday could have the results of the Fed meeting and subsequent comments.