MOSCOW, May 27 (PRIME) -- The Russian stock
market decreased on Tuesday, losing the gains for the last five
trading sessions, as the Ukraine’s east witnessed new outbursts of
violence, analysts said.
The MICEX dropped 2.21% to 1,417.32, and the RTS
went down 2.86% to 1,297.50.
“The geopolitical risks are still
there. We should not expect much optimism over the fact that
Ukraine held the presidential elections. For the Russian market,
everything will depend on how the dialogue between the two
countries will develop, on how Kiev and Moscow will hold gas
negotiations,” Metropol analyst Sergei Filchenkov
said.
As of Tuesday’ evening, the Ukrainian army was
preparing to attack the city of Donetsk to eliminate all pro-Russia
rebels. There was shooting in the airport of Donetsk, now
controlled by the army which defeated the separatists.
VTB was one of the biggest losers on Tuesday,
after reporting a 98% net profit fall on the year in January–March,
as calculated under International Financial Reporting Standards,
Ivan Fomenko, director of Absolut Bank’s trust management
department, said. Sbebank’s shares were also weighed by this
report, he said.
Norilsk Nickel outperformed the market after a
report that the company will save 12 billion euros until 2016 out
of cancellation of export duties for copper and nickel ahead of
schedule, Filchenkov said. Nickel spot prices are high enough to
support the Norilsk Nickel’s shares, he said.
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