HSBC Holdings rates Mail.ru Group as one of its "top" stock picks as the Russian Internet company takes advantage of rising demand for advertising in the nation's expanding economy. HSBC Holdings rates Mail.ru Group as one of its "top" stock picks as the Russian Internet company...

State-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom might give up its plans to proceed with listing on the London Stock Exchange after a central securities depositary is launched in Russia by 2013. State-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom might give up its plans to proceed with listing on the London Stock Exchange after a central securities...

... management, ensuring optimal goods flow to Russia and Belorussia and logistical cost-efficiency at every stage - Managing monthly rolling production forecast updates in accordance with the sales budget, registration plan, packaging availability, current stock levels and marketing strategy - Bonded stock control, interaction with production and the bonded warehouse - Launching the newly-registered products into the supply chain - Contract management (sales and service agreements), negotiations over...

Pacific Investment Management, the money manager best known for bond funds, recommends buying Russian stocks with "formidable" dividend yields such as oil producers TNK-BP and Bashneft. Pacific Investment Management, the money manager best known for bond funds, recommends buying Russian stocks with "formidable" dividend...

... significant work ahead to increase their awareness." Philip Baum, the company's non-executive chairman, said in a statement on the company's web site that Nord Gold will consider increasing the size of the free float and increasing liquidity of its stock in the future. The size of Nord Gold's free float reached about 10.6 percent after Severstal's minority shareholders agreed to swap the steelmaker's securities for the gold miner's stock late last week. Increasing liquidity is one of the major...

The Eastern European Trust, the stock fund run by BlackRock that beat the regional index by 19 percentage points in the past three years, has cut holdings in Russia before the presidential election and is buying in Turkey. The Eastern European...

... after investors offered more shares than are outstanding, according to UralSib Capital. Investors applied to sell back 1 billion shares in accordance with the buyback rules, Raspadskaya said in a statement late Monday. That amounts to 129 percent of the stock outstanding as some minority shareholders tendered shares "more than twice," UralSib analyst Dmitry Smolin said. "There are clear risks that the buy back could be contested by minorities," Smolin said in a note Tuesday. "We...

... months after saying it would cap a share buyback for investors that lost money in its 2007 initial public offering. Shares of state-controlled VTB sank 1.9 percent to 6.77 kopeks by Friday's close of trading on MICEX. The fifth day of declines capped the stock's longest losing streak since November. VTB surged as much as 4.3 percent on Feb. 2 after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the Moscow-based lender to consider buying back shares from investors who participated in the bank's 2007 IPO. The buyback...

Investors applied to sell back 1 billion shares of Raspadskaya in accordance with the buyback rules, the company said late Monday. That amounts to 129 percent of outstanding stock as some minority shareholders tendered shares "more than twice," UralSib analyst Dmitry Smolin said. "We expect the Federal Service for Financial Markets could start to investigate the excessive number of shares tendered." The...

Russia's $10 billion sovereign private equity fund is making its first investment, buying a stake in the country's MICEX-RTS stock market with the aim of boosting the exchange's IPO hopes and helping develop Moscow's rudimentary capital markets. Russia’s newest state fund made its first investment on Monday, buying a stake in Moscow’s MICEX-RTS...

... steelmaker's shares for the securities of its gold-mining unit Nord Gold, paving the way for the unit's London listing later this week. Investors tendered a total of 20.3 million Severstal securities, which represent about 10.6 percent of Nord Gold stock, above the 5 percent threshold required for the gold miner's listing, Severstal said in a statement. The split-off will result in Nord Gold becoming the country's fourth-largest gold producer and will allow both companies to focus entirely on their...

State-controlled bank VTB will buy back its stock from retail investors at the 2007 issue price of 13.6 kopeks per share over the next two months in a move aimed at preserving the reputation of the country's second-largest lender. State-controlled bank...

... appropriate anti-cyclical, demand-stabilizing fiscal policy. The government will partly fill this gap that will be created by the likely decline of net exports. For investors, a reallocation of Russian equity portfolios from oil, gas and metals toward stocks that benefit from solid domestic demand is the best strategy at this point. Sberbank has suddenly become a very good alternative to troubled Western banks. Since real disposable incomes will continue to rise quickly, retail and consumer goods stocks...

VTB bank is ready to use part of its earnings to buy back shares from small investors who lost money during VTB's 2007 stock listing. VTB bank is ready to use part of its earnings to buy back shares from small investors who lost money during VTB's 2007 stock listing, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday. Shares in VTB, which is still 75.5 percent owned by the government...

... office decoration, the content of her interview with The Moscow Times was focused on unembellished numbers and the achievements and challenges they signify for Russia's agricultural sector, which include the first post-Soviet increase in cattle-breeding stock. Yelena Skrynnik Education Graduated from the government’s Economy Academy, majoring in management in 1992. Work Experience 1994-2001 — Worked in leasing 2001-2009 — Chief executive of Rosagroleasing, a state company for leasing...

... that “monitoring agencies should check into the financial pyramids that Mavrodi is setting up.” In a later interview Jan. 16, Pilipchuk said, “The supervision of the operation isn’t ours. It’s under the Federal Service for Stock Markets.” If Mavrodi breaks the law, he added, then his division will follow up. Though the stock market regulator took part in Federal Anti-Monopoly Service research on MMM-2011 a year ago, its press office told The Moscow Times on Friday...

Fund managers are abandoning their bearish outlook and "rerisking" capital in Russia and other emerging markets where stocks are cheaper than in developed nations, said Richard Lacaille, chief investment officer at State Street Global Advisors. Fund managers are abandoning their bearish outlook and "rerisking" capital in Russia and other emerging...

... rumored to be leaving his position and Novatek's chief executive is a potential replacement, Vedomosti reported Friday, citing unidentified people close to the company. (MT) Polyus Gold said the listing of its American Depositary Shares on the London Stock Exchange has been canceled effective Friday. (Bloomberg)

... promoted offering, which VTB made in May 2007, attracted $8 billion but left more than 100,000 retail investors in the hole after the company’s shares have slid by nearly 50 percent from the IPO price of 13.6 kopeks ($0.005) per share. VTB targets a stock price of 15 kopeks per share by 2013, according to the strategy announced by Kostin in 2010.   Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said Friday that Putin’s initiative came as a surprise, but she suggested that retail investors...

... analysis, key-role products management, effective application of promo-actions, progress control, business process optimization, HR-management; • Ensuring accurate reporting and forecasting, analysis of results, management of accounts receivable; • Stock-management, sell-in & sell-out balance (Moscow+regions), purchase budget, meeting the contract volume obligations, expanding the rang with brand-new goods (IT-process, trade launching), certification; • Implementation of business and brand strategies...