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MORNING HEADLINES RUSSIAN CAPITAL MARKETS FRIDAY, MARCH 05, 2004 Sales/TradingLondon (+44 020) 7439 6881 Moscow (+7 095) 995 2400 MARKET NEWS COMMENT Surgutneftegas minori Market: Continue to see support in Gazprom, LUKoil and the cells. PM ties attempt to cancel ratified today.RTS closed Thursday at 669.26 up 0.3% or 1.99 points from the previous close. Trading volume Thursday fell to U.S. $45.5 million from U.S. $54.2 million Wednesday. The MICEX closed Thursday at Sibneft charged with 582.11, up 0.1% from the previous close. Trading volume on the MICEX $420 mn more in back was down to $582.1 million from $660.0 million on Wednesday. taxes LUKoil JV to tap Saudi natural gas field EVENTS Russia’s cellular sub TO WATCH Mar 11 Golden Telecom 2003 US GAAP results scriber base up 5% in Mar 14 Russia's presidential election scheduled February to 39.9 million Mar 20 SurgutNG AGM Mar 26 Results of March 14 presidential elections to be an URSI: new licenses for nounced Mar 28 Sibneft EGM and 2003 GAAP results Ekaterinburg, Sverd Yukos 2003 operating results Apr 1 Russia’s oil export duty set at $35.2 per tonne lovsk region; plans con Apr 6 Sibneft’s EMG expected to be held solidation Apr 15 NW Tel to consider merger with Lensvyaz and Komi's Svyaz RUSSIAN ADRs, LONDON INDICATORS Changes Changes Price Vol 1 day 1 mo YTD Value 1 day 1 mo YTD $ $ mn % % % $ % % % Gazprom 34.2 28.2 3.0 14.8 31.9 Urals, bbl 30.7 0.7 15.1 6.5 Lukoil 116.1 79.1 1.7 15.0 24.7 Nickel, t 13150.0 5.6 12.3 20.6 Surgut 31.7 6.2 1.6 12.2 7.8 Eurobond Rus10 112.5 0.1 5.8 7.3 Sibneft 32.2 8.4 1.8 3.0 3.9 Gazprom 09EUR 114.2 0.0 7.6 9.2 Yukos 49.6 42.6 1.0 6.7 18.1 Tatneft 25.9 0.5 0.1 2.4 14.9 UES 31.7 14.0 0.8 4.9 16.2 Source: Bloomberg Mosenergo 8.1 0.1 0.6 2.5 22.7 INDICES Rostelecom 14.1 0.8 1.3 6.6 12.8 MTS 114.4 55.3 4.0 18.9 38.2 Changes Vimpelcom 88.9 33.6 2.5 24.3 21.0 Value 1 day 1 mo YTD % % % Norilsk Nickel 72.2 55.3 2.8 1.7 8.6 RTS 669.3 0.3 6.9 18.0 MICEX 592.3 0.1 8.1 15.1 Dow Jones 10588.0 0.0 1.1 1.3 Nasdaq Comp 2055.1 1.1 1.8 2.6 Bovespa 22393.0 0.7 6.2 0.7 FTSE 4559.1 0.8 4.0 1.8 Source: Bloomberg Source: Bloomberg EQUITIES Changes Mcap Price Volume 52 wk 52 wk 4 wk 1 day 1 1 mo YTD .$ bn (RTS high Low vol, % wk. % % $ MICEX) $ $ $ mn % $mn Lukoil 24.7 29.1 52.8 1.8 4.9 13.5 24.8 29.3 13.6 49.4 Surgutneftegaz, or 25.9 0.6 33.7 1.2 0.0 9.9 8.2 0.7 0.3 16.5 Surgutneftegaz, pr 0.4 5.1 0.0 0.4 11.9 8.3 0.5 0.2 3.3 Sibneft 15.5 3.3 2.0 0.3 1.2 3.7 14.4 3.7 1.9 2.5 Tatneft 2.9 1.3 2.4 1.0 0.8 2.4 14.7 1.4 0.8 3.9 Yukos 33.8 12.5 36.7 1.1 1.0 6.9 18.5 16.4 9.3 35.3 Gazprom, local 45.3 1.9 70.3 3.4 1.0 24.0 44.4 57.0 24.7 20961.0 Gazprom, ADS 80.8 34.2 28.2 3.0 6.7 14.8 31.9 34.2 11.5 238.2 UES, or 13.6 0.3 124.1 0.1 0.6 2.4 13.1 0.3 0.1 63.7 UES, pr 0.3 0.4 0.0 5.1 7.9 17.6 0.3 0.1 0.1 Mosenergo 2.3 0.1 7.4 0.5 0.5 1.4 20.2 0.1 0.0 4.5 MTS, ADS 11.3 114.4 55.3 4.0 10.0 18.9 38.2 115.9 40.2 337.9 Vimpelcom, ADS 4.8 88.9 33.6 2.5 6.6 24.3 21.0 89.7 33.9 451.9 Rostelecom, or 1.7 2.4 25.7 0.4 1.3 5.6 14.1 2.4 1.3 6.1 Rostelecom, pr 1.7 1.4 0.0 2.9 11.5 14.6 1.7 0.9 0.9 Golden Telecom 1.0 33.5 1.5 4.7 3.9 14.5 20.3 34.7 13.8 41.2 MGTS 0.8 11.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 6.8 25.0 Ural SI 1.4 0.0 2.9 0.8 5.0 4.3 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.6 Volga Telecom 0.9 3.1 0.1 0.0 1.9 1.3 16.9 3.5 1.4 1.0 South Telecom 0.4 0.1 0.0 3.9 7.2 12.6 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.4 Norilsk Nickel 15.5 72.3 40.4 1.3 4.0 1.8 10.9 75.8 23.3 46.2 Severstal 3.8 172.0 0.5 1.1 2.6 1.7 41.1 189.5 56.7 2.2 2 Sberbank 6.8 345.0 20.2 0.3 0.6 14.6 32.4 357.0 205.0 14.6 Source: Bloomberg FIXED INCOME Changes Changes Current YTM CY Spre 1 day 1 1 mo 3 mo 1 day 1 wk 1 mo % % ad % wk. % % % % % % Indices EMBI+ 285.7 0.0 0.0 3.3 23.6 482 3 28 31 EMBI+ Russia 331.2 0.3 2.4 3.6 22.8 263 12 35 29 Eurobonds Russia 03 97.3 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 3.1 9.7 175 2 12 78 Russia 05 109.0 0 0.1 1.3 3.4 3.2 8.0 8 15 16 8 Russia 07 117.3 0 0.1 0.1 0.0 4.3 8.5 234 3 9 35 Russia 10 112.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.4 5.8 7.3 245 19 24 6 Russia 18 134.7 0 0.8 2.2 9.5 7.2 8.2 296 25 35 2 Russia 28 161.7 0 0.1 0.3 1.3 7.3 7.9 318 23 23 12 Russia 30 98.2 0 0.1 0.4 1.3 6.9 5.1 318 19 40 12 Russia EUR 04 102.1 0 0.0 0.2 1.7 3.4 8.8 138 5 17 14 Russia EUR 05 107.1 0 0.0 0.1 2.4 4.1 8.8 155 1 3 13 L MARKETS A Source: Bloomberg MACROECONOMIC STATISTICS – USA RUSSIAN CAPIT Date Time Statistic For Actual Market Prior Revised From Expects Mat 01 8:30 AM Personal Income Jan 0.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% Mat 01 8:30 AM Personal Spending Jan 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.5% Mat 01 10:00 AM ISM Index Feb 61.4 62.5 62.0 63.6 Mar 04 8:30 AM Initial Claims Feb28 345K 345K 345K 350K Mar 04 8:30 AM Productivity Q4 2.6% 2.7% 2.7% 2.7% Mar 04 10:00 AM Factory Orders Jan 0.5% 0.7% 0.6% 1.1% Mar 05 8:30 AM Nonfarm Payrolls Feb 120K 125K 112K Mar 05 8:30 AM Unemployment Rate Feb 5.6% 5.6% 5.6% Source: Yahoo Finance Morning bell March 05 2004 Friday NEWS SURGUTNEFTEGAS MINORITIES ATTEMPT TO CANCEL TREASURY SHARES Several minority investors of Surgutneftegas (SNGS, $0.63, Sell), including Hermitage Capital Management, Prosperity Capital Management and several other investors that manage about $10 billion in Russian assets, have filed a lawsuit in KhantyMansiisk Arbitration Court in an attempt to cancel 62% of Surgutneftegas shares held by its subsidiaries, according Hermitage CEO Bill Browder. Browder believes that the stock held by Surgut subsidiaries should be classified as treasury shares and cancelled because it hasn’t been used in a year. The Russian Law on JointStock Companies states that a company must cancel unissued treasury shares held on its balance sheet if they are not used within one year. The company can neither receive divi dends from those shares, nor vote with them. In Surgutneftegas’ case, its shares are held by its subsidiaries, and both vote and receive dividends. We see no direct violation of the law. However, the minority investors have said they believe the law should be applied more strictly in this case. Surgut’s managers control the company through shares held by the subsidiaries. Canceling the shares would in our view reduce manage ment control over Surgut and make it a takeover target. We believe that Surgut minority investors have lit tle chance of winning the case.