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MOEX Group (Moscow Exchange)

Moscow Exchange announced the suspension of trading on the stock market from 13:58. Reasons for such a decision are not specified in the message. On the time of resumption of trading the exchange promised to inform later. Previously, the exchange warned that on February 13 and 14, technical work will be carried out to update the trading system on the test ci...

LUKOIL

Lukoil Oil Company started construction of a lubricants and cutting fluids production complex in Volgograd. New plant will be able to produce up to 70 thousand tons of products per year. Completion of construction of the 27.9 thousand square meters complex is planned for 2026.

VTB Bank

VTB became the owner of 24.9% of the company Nattspromleasing, follows from the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. At the same time, Rostec's stake in the company decreased from 51% to 25.5%. Natspromleasing is the only leasing operator in Russia, specializing in targeted support of industry in terms of machine-tool construction, industria...

Nebius Group

IT company Yandex has released the biggest update to the Yandex Browser, adding a new generation of neural networks. Users can now enhance their texts with YandexGPT and generate images with YandexART right in the browser interface. Neural networks will also translate videos from eight foreign languages into Russian, retell them, generate subtitles and more.

Diasoft

IT company Diasoft has set the IPO offering price at ₽4500 per share, which corresponds to the upper limit of the price corridor. Thus, the entire company is valued at ₽47.25 billion. Shares of institutional and private investors during the procedure of collecting applications were distributed approximately equally, as well as up to 20% of the total size of...

VK

Volume of native business integrations in blogger content and self-produced shows on VK Video has exceeded ₽1 billion since the launch of the standalone app in September 2023. Most interest from businesses has been in author content from popular and aspiring bloggers on lifestyle, humor and beauty industry topics. Demand for native integrations is growing fa...

Solidcore Resources

Polymetal acquired Sergeyevskaya Mining and Geological Company from Okhotsk Mining and Geological Company. It holds a license for the development of the Sergeevskoye gold deposit in the Kamchatka region. Until 2018, Okhotsk Mining and Geological Company was owned by Polymetal, but then it was sold to a group of private Russian investors.

Aeroflot

Aeroflot's RAS loss in 2023 amounted to ₽29.456 billion, up twofold from ₽14.312 billion in the previous year. Revenue rose 49.5% to ₽497.51 billion against ₽332.74 billion a year earlier.

Mobile TeleSystems

MTS Bank is thinking of holding an IPO in the spring offering window, sources told Reuters. Bank plans to raise ₽10-11 bln from the market, based on a valuation of 1.1-1.4 capital. Only the additional issue shares will be offered. None of the existing shareholders plans to sell the securities. MTS Bank is now wholly owned by MTS, which bought the remaining 4...

MOEX Group (Moscow Exchange)

Moscow Exchange plans to create a corporate information center on the Datashop portal by the end of 2024, where investors will be able to obtain information about issuers and their securities. In the service will be available company reports, information on dividend payments, changes in the parameters of instruments, holding of shareholders' meetings, inform...