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After the ban on gambling in Ukraine, state lotteries are the only legal option for Ukrainians seeking to experience good fortune and unleash the gamble. It would be logical to assume that the frequenters of gaming halls and casinos, having lost last year of their favorite entertainment, queuing for lottery tickets and the revenue the state will increase by several times. But so far it has not happened - instead of the players to "lototron" began the pilgrimage"s deputies. Over the past two months in the Verkhovna Rada registered at three bills designed to regulate the activities of lottery operators in Ukraine. Legislative activity, in theory, should lead to a truly high-quality paper. After all, when there are plenty to choose from, the result should be the best. However, this time we are faced with a phenomenon which could be called an illusion of choice. It turns out, really no choice of what, well, almost as in the current presidential election. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to understand the motivation of the people"s representatives. Why do so many years, the lottery has been left to itself, and suddenly her so much interest? Maybe it into perspective ... CEO of M.S.L. " Oleg Yakimets commented on this issue in Ukrainian. "If you look at the market for our neighbors, it becomes clear that Ukraine has a huge potential growth in lottery business. If the average Greek lottery spends up to 470 euros per year, the Ukrainian average of less than 1 euro a year. Of course, the record for Greece this indicator in Europe ", - said market participant. But the minimum 90 euros per year for residents of EU countries compare to one of our euro fantastic sum. Here it is essential to remember that buying a lottery, the average European is not so much to give vent to his passion and desire for easy money, how many gave money to charity. In the end, all European countries, the main purpose of the lottery is to raise funds for various social projects and in support of sporting events. Of course, the operators themselves have a purely mercantile interests, but they are still secondary. most popular lottery reached in countries with relatively low incomes - in Latin America, South-East Asia. Where people are poor, for lotereyschikov expanse, they use a naive belief temperamental and gambling Southerners in a fairy tale with a happy ending. Ukrainians, of course, not Indians or Mexicans, but we have quite a few poor romantics who love Indian cinema and Mexican soap operas, as well as seriously expect to snatch from fate "lucky" ticket. These purely psychological conditions give lottery business in Ukraine, a very good chance to build speed, if not an order, then for sure in 2-3 times for sure. seems this factor and could become a catalyst for legislative activity of Deputies. They just "suddenly saw the light", making out the potential of lotteries. Heirs Sportloto Worldwide, there are a variety of state lotteries, the basic income from which goes to various social projects and development of sports. In Ukraine there are four operators. The largest of these is "M.S.L., also known as" Molodsportloto. " In most companies believe that it takes at least 60-70% of the lottery market in the country. The second turnover of the operator - Ukrainian National Lottery (UNL), which accounts for about 20-30%. Third - "Patriot", who is content with about 10% of the market. Fourth - "Oschadbank" True, he does not hold them now, but it is a distributor of tickets of other existing operators. 1000 Each of them has a great choice. UNL has 4 variants of the so-called numerical lotteries - Super Lotto, Keno, Lotto Troika. Patriot sells 14 kinds of instant lotteries. Market leader "M.S.L." spends the most famous Ukrainians number lotteries: Lotto Fun "," Mega Lot, apartment lottery: "Who out there", "Sportprognoz" and "Sportliga." Given that Ukraine has a moratorium on the issuance of licenses for lotteries, entry into this market of new players at the moment is actually excluded. Nevertheless, it is possible to increase the number of lotteries themselves, this option is not legally restricted. So if there is investment market participants have every opportunity for growth. price issue All Ukrainian lottery have a status of public and private traders may be only their organizers, who received a license for this activity. Such companies enjoy special tax treatment. General taxes do not concern them, they only pay VAT on the sale of lottery tickets in the amount of 12,5%, provided that all of the remaining funds, not less than 50% should be paid to players as winnings. Domestic operators are committed to constantly cry poverty, telling about the enormous costs of the lottery. However, the Russian lotereyschikov reviews, it is very profitable, although it requires a fairly intensive investment. cost of the conventional lottery is about 5% of the ticket. Suppose that in Ukraine this figure is on the same level. In addition, we have state lotteries, rather than private, as in Russia, and their dissemination through state Oschadbank Ukrpochta and less expensive. Given the 50 per cent of the prize fund and 12.5% of tax deductions, the profit of operators can be up to 30% of turnover. In 2008, the market for lotteries amounted to about 500 million UAH., In 2009 the amount increased approximately 20% and amounted to little more than 600 million UAH. These data provide by market participants. In particular, the CEO M.S.L. " Oleg Yakimets said recently that his company"s revenue for 2009 amounted to about 370 million UAH. That, in his words, is not less than 60% of all sales of lottery tickets in Ukraine. Meanwhile, one of the sponsors of the bill - MP from the BYuT faction Anton Yatsenko appreciated our market of 3-4 billion UAH. And according to head of the committee on tax and customs policy, BP Sergei Terekhin, in 2009, the lottery market in Ukraine amounted to approximately 1 billion USD. At the same time he is convinced that we do not have shady schemes to evade payment of 12,5% of the tax, all income from activities of the operators go through the state treasury. "The only option - sale of lottery tickets unaccounted for, but this is frank crime" - he added. last word still rests with the Finance Ministry, which controls the financial income. The spread of numbers goes too broad - from the modest 600 million UAH. to the fantastic 4 billion UAH. It is worth noting that the entire turnover of the gambling business in Ukraine amounted to his ban is not more than 1,5 billion U.S. Unfortunately, the state statistics did not know - Ministry of Finance to request UNIAN for three weeks and did not answer. In this case, according to sources close to the business, last year an estimate of the market amounted to around 700 million USD. He also said that the Finance Ministry did not provide operators with data on the market, operators are forced to define it on the basis of his own figures. Lotereyschiki "outside the law" As for bills, it all started with MPs from the BYuT faction Yatsenko. His bill was registered in the parliament on Dec. 8, 2009. It was called "On the introduction of state monopoly1000on the implementation of the lottery business." This was followed by the document MP from the Party of Regions Viktor Korzh "Regulation of the activities for the lotteries in Ukraine, registered BP December 15, 2009. And finally, on Jan. 11, 2010 BYuTovets Valery Quoting introduced into parliament a bill "On state regulation of lottery business. These documents are actually one and the same number - 5417, the difference between them only in the indexes, as well as similar names, which show that both have one goal - the monopolization of the state lottery. However, as noted above, the lottery in Ukraine state monopoly, private traders and are the only operators. Another thing is that the lottery business in Ukraine has its own law, and is satisfied with individual articles of the fundamental pieces of legislation already adopted in the 1990"s. S. Terekhin, although not related to the development of new legislation in this area, but it is the author of the law, which for 13 years governed the relationship in this area, commented on it so - in 1997 to write the rules of the game state and the operators asked to lotereyschiki . "In the same year a law was passed, I have also written about enterprise income tax, where the 10-th article had been written down general rules for taxation of lottery business. But in the transitional provisions of the Act, I asked the Cabinet to write for a year a separate law for lotteries ", - said S. Terekhin, stressing:" It was in 1997, and any law that today would be to regulate this sphere of activity is beneficial. Today, there are no rules for operators of lotteries, but there are only so-called licensing conditions, which were taken as the Ministry of Finance bylaw 8 years ago. " One of the three, or a game of monopoly turns out that the law of the market need for the lottery, but talking about it and the operators themselves, but with one important proviso. They oppose the bill Yatsenko, which actually offers deprive them of their licenses and to transfer this type of activity in the maintenance of state-owned enterprises, which will be created specifically. Intelligence for comment at the very Yatsenko agency UNIAN, alas, could not, apparently, he like most of his colleagues recently plunged into the campaign. According to S. Terekhin, Bill Yatsenko should not be taken seriously. "Quintessence of the bill of MP is that all financial flows from the lotteries should be monitored specifically for this purpose, a state agency, the type of the infamous Tender Chamber of Ukraine. This authority will be delegated some MPs, representatives of the ministries. We have such schemes are familiar, and we know what this means, "- recalled the MP. However he A. Yatsenko, speaking about his bill, had previously stated the opposite, noting that in order to prevent corruption, a special regulatory state bodies in the field of lotteries established should not. There will inevitably have to refer to the recent scandal, which erupted between S. Terekhin and A. Yatsenko, despite their affiliation to one political force. Both MPs have already expressed their views about the essence of the conflict in the media. In short, it boils down to what Yatsenko accuses Terekhina mediated in the possession of a Ukrainian operator of lotteries - UNL and tax evasion. In turn, S. Terekhin totally denies everything. It is convinced that all the accusations against him - just revenge for their unwillingness to support a bill on BP PPL proposed Yatsenko. In principle, everybody can get acquainted with the nuances of this conflict on the Internet, we also delve into them will not. But that really can not be ignored, since this conclusion is the Chief Scientific Expert Department (GNEU) BP on the bill Yatsenko.1000First, the experts note too wide a range of issues that affect the document. "Due to the fact that the introduction of state monopoly on lotteries is only one of the bill, certain elements of public policy concerning the organization and conducting lotteries, we propose to change its name to" On state regulation of the issue and conducting lotteries. "By the way, next in the chronology Bill lotteries, MP Korzh, almost so called "On the Regulation of Activities on lotteries in Ukraine, apparently, a deputy from PR acquainted with conclusions GNEU. Although in the correct expression, but experts GNEU smashed bill Yatsenko to smithereens. In particular, they noted the lack of conformity of the proposed rules in the bill to the current legislation of Ukraine. Thus, according to experts, the proposed introduction of state monopoly on the lottery contrary to law "On Entrepreneurship". In GNEU convinced that if they pass a lottery business exclusively in the management of state enterprises, then this should be done by amending the law "On Entrepreneurship". One of the main themes of the bill Yatsenko is to protect consumers from unscrupulous operators of lotteries, which in his view, the Ukrainians do not even get the winnings. This MP proposes to introduce appropriate changes to the Commercial Code and Law on Protection of Consumer Rights. At that experts reasonably indicate that such an approach is contrary to commonly accepted rules of technology legislation, as proposed changes are not directly related to the lottery business. In other words, the bill Yatsenko demonstrates a desire to delegate to one document "shove nevpihuemoe. Moreover, trying to cover the items in its bill a number of neighboring legislation, Yatsenko nevertheless "forgets" about one of the most important issues actually lottery activities. His bill provides for licensing of lotteries, by default, offering to transfer him to a certain state-owned enterprise. Thus A Yatsenko actually offers a "scam" working in Ukraine today lottery operators. Lotereyschiki Good or bad - is a separate issue, but today they are working in accordance with existing laws and investing heavily in the development of their business. As you can guess, GNEU BP openly encouraged to send "raw" Bill Yatsenko for revision. Having noted the comments of the experts, 15 December 2009 MP registered in the Verkhovna Rada another bill to amend the law on the moratorium on the licensing of economic activity is producing and conducting lotteries. This paper proposes to abolish the licensing of lotteries businesses independent ownership. December 18 last year at BP Yatsenko registered draft resolution approving the objectives of state economic development program of state lotteries and their social orientation. All this testifies to a persistent intention to suspend the MPs from holding gosloterey private operators. And last, unlike S. Terekhina refer to the bill even Yatsenko very seriously. "Copyright" - is not for MPs At the same time, S. Terekhin praised the bills still one of his colleagues from the BYuT Valery Far and regionalization Viktor Korzh. "Draft B. Extreme looks like a bill deputy Korzh. The bill MPs from PR is proposed to increase contributions to the State lottery operators to 25%.

The beginning of the week was marked by increasing expectations that the negative trends of the last week ended, and markets have again begun to rise. But th1000e second half of the week was marked by the fall of world stock indices. The formal reason was compiled by the U.S. labor market, which showed growth in the number of initial applications for unemployment benefits and reduce the number of jobs in the U.S.. Also exacerbated the controversy over problems with public finances of Greece, Spain and Portugal. We believe that these news are just a formal occasion. Many market participants long awaited correction and embraced the movement of world indices as a sell signal. The MICEX index dropped for the week, closing on Friday at 1355.6 points, closing below the previous Friday to 4.5%. This is the strongest weekly fall since the end of October. ruble following week even slightly strengthened: currency basket was closed on Friday at 35.44 rubles, compared with the closing at 35.67 rubles to the previous Friday. Within weeks we have seen high volatility of the ruble: quote currency basket ranged from 35.14 to 35.77 rubles. We believe that the outcome of next week, world stock index fell. At the beginning of the week can be a small rebound, but the following week will prevail negative trends. For the first few months have begun to withdraw from funds focused on investments in emerging markets: the markets are losing "fuel" that could lead markets up. Secondly, broken upward trend, so we do not expect a rapid resumption of growth. Log in and enjoy the material;; 2; user rated material 2. Analyst Ratings

G7 meeting may return to the markets of optimism, but for how long? The Russian stock market ends week on a minor note. The decline of one-week high, recorded on Wednesday, the MICEX index today was adjusted by more than 7% on fears associated with individual euro-zone economies, which collapsed the euro and the global equity markets. At the start of trading session, the MICEX index tested the level of support in the 50% correction of Fibonacci, which suspended further decline. Bouncing in the day also contributed to the situation in the foreign exchange market, which is also bounce up after reaching the local level of support for a pair of euro /dollar. Describing prospects for finishing the trading session and the upcoming week, I want to highlight a few points that can be played with the speculative survivors "bulls". First, some rebound, which we observed within days, contributed to the closure of "shorts," a declining trend in which, given the likelihood of reversal in the markets next week, can be enhanced closer to the finish of the trading day. Secondly, a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers G7 in Canada in which it is expected they will discuss the need and timing of closure of emergency government measures to support the economy, do not leave aside the question of the situation in such countries as Greece, Spain Portugal. That"s news to the economies of those countries have recently formed the mood in the financial market. Results of G7 meeting could seriously skorretirovat sentiment on the currency market, which significantly increases the risks of transfer of positions through the weekend. In many respects, determine the finish of Friday and start trading in the U.S., but in general, opening speculative positions on stocks, I recommend them not to leave for the weekend. Risk fact1000or is also the dynamics of emerging markets that are declining faster pace, which mainly contributes to a sharp outflow of capital from the markets of emerging markets. Next week will be quiet on the yield of macroeconomic statistics. The most important data will be data on the eurozone GDP. In general, the positive outcome of G7 meeting could lead to a rebound in world stock markets, resulting in the MICEX index may return to the borders of the medium-term rising channel (above 1430 points). Otherwise, the correction in financial markets continues, the strong support for the MICEX lies at the level of 1290 points. Log in and enjoy the material;; 1; user rated material at 4. Analyst Ratings

Trading volume on the MICEX derivatives market at 16:00 Moscow was 2,710,820,000 rubles. Futures on USD: trading volume - 152,900,000 rubles., Quoting the nearest futures - 30,49 rub. (0.2711 rub.), The volume of open positions - 1420000 counter. Futures EURO: number of open positions - 14,5 thousand counter. MICEX Index futures: trading volume - 2330460000 rub., Quoting the nearest futures - 135,950 rubles. (-4 300 rub.), The volume of open positions - 3505 counter. Futures on Gazprom: the volume of trades - 63.59 million rubles., Quoting the nearest futures - 18209 rub. (-543 Rub.), The volume of open positions - 2186 counter. Futures Savings: trading volume - 73.29 million rubles., Quoting the nearest futures - 8234 rub. (EUR -274.), The volume of open positions - Rear 3583. Norilsk Nickel futures: trading volume - 75.09 million rubles., Quoting the nearest futures - 44,961 rubles. (-1 096 rub.), The volume of open positions - 761 Rear. Lukoil futures: trading volume - 15.48 million rubles., Quoting the nearest futures - 16184 rub. (-556 Rub.), The volume of open positions - 1785 counter. Futures MosPrime 3M: volume of open positions - 20 counter. &1000lt;br /> At 16.00 Moscow time value RGBI price index was 131.06. Compared to the previous day"s close it down by 0.01 paragraph (0.008%). Trading volume on the market of government securities amounted 66.01 billion rubles. Yields on bonds SU25062RMFS9 with maturity in May 2011 was 6.59% (0.05 percentage points) on the bonds SU25067RMFS8 with maturity in October 2012 - 7.11% (-0.02 percentage points) on the bonds with SU25068RMFS6 maturing in August 2014 - 7.61% (-0.1 percentage points) on the bonds SU26200RMFS4 with maturity in July 2013 - 7.26% (-0.19 percentage points) on the bonds SU26202RMFS0 with maturity in December 2014 - 7.67% (-0.08 percentage points). C corporate bond market concluded 776 deals amounting to $ 10651.97 million rubles. Yields on bonds CFR 12obl with maturity in May 2019 was 8.09% (-0.21 percentage points) on the bonds System-02 with a due date in August 2014 - 10.46% (-0.07 percentage points) , on bonds CFR 08obl with maturity July 2011 - 8.12% (-0.4 percentage points), on bonds Petrokomb5 with maturity in December 2014 - 11.81% (-0.01 percentage points), on Bonds CFR 10obl with maturity in March 2014 - 8.95% (-0.03 percentage points). C sub-federal and municipal bonds signed 196 deals amounting to 3446.28 million rubles. Yields on bonds MGor62-on with maturity in June 2014 was 8.15% (-0.15 percentage points), the bonds MGor61-on with maturity in June 2013 - 8.09% (-0.03 percentage points) , on bonds MGor56-on with maturity in September 2016 - 8.63% (-0.08 percentage points) on the bonds KostromOb5 with maturity in December 2012 - 12.4% (0.28 percentage points) on the bonds YarObl-07 with a due date in March 2010 - 8.37% (0.29 percentage points). In "Bond Market", you can find information on issues of corporate and municipal bonds, as well as learn about the planned deployment, the outcome of trading on the MICEX and read the comments Fixed-Income. Log in and enjoy the material;; Your score will be the first! Analyst Ratings

Dynamics Bidding on Thursday at the home sites were in significant negative dynamics. The opening took place near the level of the previous closing, and after a brief attempt to increase, the shares went to the negative territory after a negative start of the session in Western Europe. Within days the situation has stabilized, but closer to the market closing on the sale came with a new force on the background of the deteriorating situation on the American sites. In general, the day passed under the full control "bears". sales leader, on Thursday became the paper Sberbank, lost about 4%. Some 2% - 3% down shares of Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Norilsk Nickel, Lukoil, Rosneft, Surgutneftegaz and Rostelecom. As a result of trades RTS index fell to 1463.01 points (-2.93%), the MICEX index has completed trades on the value of 1395.87 points (-2.46%). Causes The reason for the failure of the indices in early trades was the deterioration of the dynamics of Western European indices, especially in such countries as Greece, Portugal and Spain. The total debts of these countries has roughly $ 2 trillion euros, half of which are in Spain. It is to this problem has been the focus of attention at the press conference, ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet. Rates in the UK and the eurozone have not changed, but the head of the European Central Bank restricted vague statements concerning the current situation in the markets. Data on applications for unemployment benefits in the United States was worse than market expectations and thus increased sales. In Russia, the greater stability of paper made available VTB message from the CFO - Herbert Moos - the desire of the bank to pay bonuses to managers of shares, which will be purchased from the market. What to expect? U.S. market on Thursday closed a strong fall in the indices: Dow Jones -2.61%, S P500 -3.11% and the Nasdaq -2.99%. Asian sites today are falling behind U.S.. The Japanese Nikkei 225 in minus 2.9%, Korean index falls to 3.1%, the index lost 3% of Hong Kong, the Chinese market is reduced by 2.1%. Oil futures on the background of the sharp fall of stock markets have fallen in price. At the opening of trading in Europe, a barrel of Brent crude oil yield about 72.20 dollars. Thus, at the opening of the Russian stock market significantly negative external background. Why worry? The American market continues to update the minimum from the beginning of the year and at the same rate of sales increase. In addition to problems with the labor market in the U.S., with new forces that concerns about the reliability of the bond of one of the largest economies in Europe - Spain. Synchronized appreciation of the yen against all currencies, the dollar against European and commodity currencies, as well as falling raw material quotations is a very negative impact on the Russian stock market. This afternoon, the expected publication of the main labor market indicators U.S.. If these data will be weak, the continuation of sales on the global platforms has every chance to continue. In general, expect from today"s trading gap down opening and nervous mixed trends "blue chip" in the future. Log in and enjoy the material;; 7; users rated material 4,9. Analyst Ratings

The Russian market collapsed on Thursday under pressure from negative external background. Sales at the opening were a continuation of a downward momentum to form another a day earlier. However, by midday the MICEX index managed to "catch" for the support at 1,420 points and hold on to it until the release makrostatistiki in the U.S.. Weekly data on the labor market came out worse than expected, which was considered particularly sensitive in the run-up to Friday"s report on unemployment. As a result, the MICEX index fell by 2,5% by the end of the day. metallurgical sector considerably subsided on the background of the negative dynamics of commodity areas. Paper Severstal lost 4.1%, NLMK - 3,8%, MMK - 1,4%. Norilsk has lost 3% of capitalization. Oil and Gas sector also came under downward pressure dynamics in the market of raw materials. Shares Gazprom oil lost in the price of 3,2%, Rosneft and Lukoil declined by 2.5% and 2% respectively. banking sector on the day also went into the negative region. Better market looked VTB has lost only 0,3%. Support of his papers had speculation about the possible redemption of shares from the market for the exercise of the option program. Sberbank fell in price by 3,8% on ordinary shares and 3,5% - to "preferred shares". Telecommunications negatively perceived outcomes of the meeting on the restructuring of Svyazinvest, which was announced that the conversion rates will be calculated based on the fair value of IRAs, but it will be taken into account by market capitalization. Forecast external background - a negative one. The world"s leading markets showed a significant reduction in the background of negative data on U.S. labor market and fears about the state of the European economy. U.S. and Asian indices lost up to 3,1%. Oil prices collapsed to $ 72.2 per barrel on the sort of Brent. In the current situation, we believe that the Russian market opens lower on 1-1,5%. Support for the MICEX is located at 1385 and 1370 points. Investors" attention today is focused on the report on unemployment (16.30 Moscow time). Log in and enjoy the material;; 1; user rated material at 4. Analyst Ratings

Domestic sugar continues to rise in price ... According to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, by the end of January 2010 sweet product in the stores" price by 26% (from 7,41 to 9,34 UAH per 1 kg), and in food markets - 32%. Price boom in the country and is accompanied by a record rise in price of sugar on world markets, caused by bad harvests in India and Brazil (in the major countries - suppliers of sugar in the international arena). Meanwhile, Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn in the rapid rise in price of sugar and excitement among consumers blame speculators. After all, as he said at the briefing, the price increase, from an economic point of view, it is not justified, and only happened for political reasons. Promising to speculators criminal cases Danilishin to eliminate the panic in the food market plans as necessary to ensure imports of sugar, as well as the use of reserves and the Agrarian State Reserve Fund. The experts, in turn, express the need for import substitution and increased plantings of sugar beet. Sugar as the risk of loss In recent years Ukraine has seen decline in the cultivation of sugar beet and sugar production from it. Thus, according to the association "Ukrainian club of agrarian business", the sugar production in 2007 amounted to 1,9 million tons in 2008 - 1,6 million tons in 2009 -1000about 1,3 million tons. The volume of the same acreage of sugar beets in 2007 amounted to 0.63 million hectares in 2008 - 0,4 million ha in 2009 - about 0.37 million hectares. Over the years, and reduced the number of sugar mills. According to the head of the National Association of Sugar Producers" Ukrsahar "Nicholas Yarchuk, in 2008, worked 70 out of 192 plants, and in the past - 56. reluctance of farmers to grow sugar beets, the head of the expert group association "Ukrainian club of agrarian business" Volodymyr Lapa explains: in 2005, sugar prices were attractive, and a good harvest of sugar beets in 2006 made possible the domestic market of about 2,6 million tons of sugar. But after that farmers and producers received three losing seasons: the price of sugar fell sharply. "Two years ago, the wholesale price of sugar was reduced to 2,5 UAH. At a cost of 2,8-2,9 grn. Per kilo" - details the expert. These earnings have been "savory" for farmers, and they began to reduce the areas sown to beet. Behind them reduce the production of sugar and the number of processing plants. Afloat held out only those plants that were part of large agrokompanii, who had their own crops of sugar beet. In view Paws, that the fall in prices could be avoided if at the state level on time, organized the purchase of excess sugar through the Agrarian Fund. But the miracle did not happen - and now we have what we have, summarizes the expert. current pricing marathon sugar market Lapa explains deficit. Thus, according to his calculations, the sugar shortage this year could reach about 400 thousand tons, because domestic production of sugar - 1,27 million tons, and the country annually consumes 1.8 million tons. In the view of the expert, this deficit is due to two reasons. The first - a prolonged downward trend in the volume of domestic production of sugar, partially dictated by the lack of government financial support to farmers who grow sugar beets. In particular, Lapa recalled that last year the farmers have not waited for government subsidies for sugar beet crops in the amount of 750 UAH. hectare. The second reason - inefficient and untimely allocation of quotas for WTO import into Ukraine 260 thousand tons of raw sugar at a reduced customs rate. According to the paws, in 2009, this volume brought about 40 thousand tons. Whose going to eat sugar? But Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn believes that the shortage of sugar in the country there. And the price of sugar rush around "political nature". Danylyshyn convinced that the big wholesalers and brokers have decided to take the political situation in the country and earn it. Catching the hand of price speculators "sweet" market, the Economy Ministry promised to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. Recall that the Committee has recently begun to study this market. In the case of detection of speculation, according to the Ministry of Economy, the violators will apply penalties (200% of the proceeds received unreasonably) and economic sanctions.

RTS and RTS-2 today to close trades decreased by 2,93% and 0,77% respectively, to 1463.01 and 1548.46 marks the item. worst market traded securities of corporations FEC. Over the past two days, the cost of a barrel of oil on average, depending on the brand, fell nearly 4%. close to neutral dynamics shown on the Russian Trading System stock exchange quotations of securities of industrial corporations. Today, like yesterday, the market for them does not seem to have found "strong" investment ideas. U.S. stock indexes opened today"s trading lower against the background of relatively weak data weekly indicator number of applications for benefits in the U.S., as well as comments ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet on the basis of today"s session of the European Central Bank, which did not contain information about the readiness of the EU regulatory structures to provide financial support to Greece. Global stock indexes have failed up to recent days to overcome the key resistance levels, which indicates the possible continuation of the slowdown in investment activity on them in the coming weeks. In the short run, on the stock market the biggest impact is likely, could have a U.S. Department of Labor statistics, which will be released on Friday. On average, analysts expected growth in January of this year number of jobs in sectors outside of agriculture in the USA at 15 000 units. In this case, the general trend of macroeconomic statistics, coming out in recent years does not seem quite positive for the realization of this forecast. Sotsset traders Comon.ru. Get tips, learn to trade stocks in real market! Register. Log in and enjoy the material;; Your score will be the first! <b67;br> Analyst Ratings

About euro, Sucre and the stock market On Thursday, our stock market is in a depressed state. The MICEX index of 15-30 showed the half-point reduction, while the RTS index shows a more tangible losses (-0.97%) due to the weakening of the ruble against the dollar (30.13). As leaders of the decline on MICEX today, shares of telecom segment (MICEX TLC -1,4%), while the securities sector banks alone raised VTB (1,9%). In the morning European stock indicators were under pressure from fears about the situation of some eurozone countries. The cost of insurance against sovereign debt default of Portugal reached a record high. Five-year CDS on Greek sovereign bonds now also increased substantially. That brought the euro to a new minimum annual level (1.3830), sent down the price of oil (Brent $ 75,15; -0,85%). And through all of these factors have increased sales on the Russian stock market. Bank of England decided to leave the discount rate at 0.5%. When he left the program1000size by buying bonds at 200 billion pounds, saying that the appropriate amount of purchases may be increased. The ECB left the basic discount rate at 1%, as expected. Deposit and marginal lending rates also left to the previous levels. Against the backdrop of continuing weakening euro interesting news came today from the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of America. Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and several other island states has issued conditional units of mutual trade - Sucre. Apparently, the locals, eventually becoming entangled in a currency advantageous to the netting for rice and sugar, have decided to introduce its single currency. In 16-30 watching the speech of the ECB Jean-Claude Trichet. Markets might hear here is something important, something that can bring their state polupriseda. At 16-30 in the U.S. went weekly data applications for benefits b /d. In the 18-00 waiting for December"s data on production orders in the U.S. (forecast: 0.9%). In general we can say that the market confidence in the continuation of growth there, which means that big players will either stay away from the market, or make money on volatility. Log in and enjoy the material;; 3; user rated material 4,7. Analyst Ratings

Stocks Save the remaining (2 /3 limit) Long positions in ordinary shares of "Gazprom" (GAZP RX) from the nearest to 200.0 rubles. Maintain long positions in ordinary shares of LUKoil "(LKOH RX) with the immediate goal in 1740 rubles., in the case of achieving a record profit of 1 /3 of available positions. Maintain long positions in ordinary shares of Rosneft "(ROSN RX) with the immediate goal of 260.0 rubles. Maintain long positions in ordinary shares of Gazprom Neft "(SIBN RX) with the immediate goal of 175.0 rubles. Keep long positions in preferred shares of Surgutneftegaz "(SNGSP RX) with the immediate goal at 16.00 rubles. Keep long positions in preferred stock of "Transneft" (TRNFP RX) with the immediate goal of 28,000 rubles. Maintain long positions in ordinary shares of VTB (VTBR RX) with the immediate aim to 0.0800 USD. Maintain long positions in ordinary shares of FGC (FEES RX) with the immediate goal of 0.360 rubles. Keep long positions in the March futures on the RTS index (VEH0) with the immediate goal in 1540 points, in the event of a closing balance of the "Long". Raw Save the remaining (2 /3 limit) long positions in the March futures on oil WTI (CLH0) with the immediate goal of $ 79f24.90 and protective take profit at around $ 75.70. sell (1 /3 limit) April futures on natural gas (NGJ0) in the case of growth of quotations of up to $ 5.65-5.70 from the immediate goal of $ 5.20 and stop loss at around $ 6.20. Log in and enjoy the material;; 3; user rated material 3,7. Analyst Ratings