Article: Yesterday in Brief for July 30, 2009.

Yesterday in Brief for July 30, 2009

Digest of headline news from July 29 to 11:30 a.m. Moscow time on July 30: BUSINESS & FINANCE *** RUSSIAN STOCKS OPEN HIGHER; MICEX INDEX UP 1.26% IN FIRST MINS

Russian stocks opened higher on Thursday with the blue chips gaining up to 3% in the first minutes of trading led by metals and oil and gas stocks.

The MICEX index was up 1.26% to 999.24 points as of 10:32 a.m.

Advancers included Severstal (RTS: CHMF) - up 3.16%, Tatneft (RTS: TATN) - up 2.1%, MMC Norilsk Nickel (RTS: GMKN) - up 1.9%, Transneft (RTS: TRNF) preferred stock - up 1.5%, Lukoil (RTS: LKOH) - up 1.4%, Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) - up ...

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