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The Russian equity market edged into the black for second consecutive week, outperforming its peers in US dollar terms. The MSCI EM index gained 0.2%, and the MSCI World index dropped 0.6% amid concerns over slowing growth in the world’s leading economies.
Better than the rest
Week
YTD
RTS Total Return (TR) in USD
1.4%
13.9%
MOEX index TR in RUB
Composite
0.6%
5.5%
Blue Chip
0.8%
6.4%
Small and mid-cap
1.3%
4.1%
MOEX sector index TR in RUB
Financial Services
1.6%
1.8%
Metals & Mining
0.3%
1.7%
-0.5%
3.8%
Oil & Gas
-0.6%
5.2%
Consumer Goods
-2.1%
8%
FX
RUB/USD
0.3%
7.1%
RUB/EUR
0.7%
8.7%
Data as of March 22th, 2019
Sources: TKB Investment Partners (JSC) calculations; Bloomberg
Russian equity market dynamics
The Russian equity market edged into the black for second consecutive week, outperforming its peers in US dollar terms. The MSCI EM index gained 0.2%, and the MSCI World index dropped 0.6% amid concerns over slowing growth in the world’s leading economies.
Oil & Gas companies outperformed last week. Positive performance from Novatek, Lukoil, and Rosneft further supported this sector. Their shares rose by 2.6%, 2.3%, and 1.8% respectively, in rouble terms.
The financial sector lagged behind the other sectoral indices. Safmar Financial Investment was the weakest in the sector, dropping by 13.2%. Similarly, VTB Bank’s shares lost 3.7%, Moscow Exchange shares fell by 2.2%.
Main Russian news
Macroeconomic indicators improved in February.
Industrial production growth surged by 4.1% YoY, which exceeded by far the market expectation of 1.5% YoY. This could largely be accredited to two key industries: manufacturing and extraction. Oil production growth in February accelerated to 3.5% YoY in comparison with 3.1% YoY in January. Increases in gas production growth were more significant, at 4.7% YoY vs 2.5% YoY in January. Retail sales growth also increased, rising in the non-food segment, while performance levels in the food segment fell in YoY terms. Preliminary estimates of real wages growth showed a decline, however Rosstat could alter this result after having received their final data for the reporting period. Furthermore, the State statistics service suspended the monthly publication of real disposable income and will now only release quarterly figures.
** Preliminary data
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced a cut in its inflation forecast for this year, down to 4.7%-5.2% from the previous 5.0%-5.5%. The regulator also lowered its peak forecast for March-April to 5.5% from the 5.5%-6.0% range it was expecting before. The CBR noted that it maintained the key rate at 7.75%. The CBR believes that the key rate increase made last year will be sufficient to bring the annual inflation back to the target rate of 4% in the first half of 2020.
Author: Marina Tsutskiridze, junior investment specialist
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Sources: Vedomosti, Bloomberg, Rosstat, cbr.ru, TKB Investment Partners (JSC); March 2019
Quarterly results: Actual vs. consensus for EPS (Earnings Per Shares), adjusted (US dollars)*
* based on Bloomberg consensus
TBA – to be announced
Source: Bloomberg, TKB Investment Partners, data as of March 22th, 2019
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