OREANDA-NEWS. On 14 August 2009 Veles Capital released daily review:

Magna and Sberbank overcame the difficulties with GM on purchasing Opel. Magna reached an agreement on purchasing Opel on all items, announced the co-chairman of the company’s board Siegfried Wolf in the interview to Bloomberg. The agreement on purchasing German motor car constructor is ready to be signed, he said.

Transneft has been returned into MSCI Russia. MSCI Inc. returned the preferred shares of Transneft into the index MSCI Russia by the end of the quarter revision, follows from the materials of the index company, imparts Interfax.

Uralkaliy lowered its sales in 1H 2009 by RAS by 2 times. Sales of Uralkaliy in 1H 2009 by RAS dropped by almost twice versus the similar period of the previous year to 12.124 bn RUR, states the report of the company.

Kazanorgsintez operates with loss for now. Kazanorgsintez gained net loss by IAS in 2008 in the amount of 2.955 bn RUR versus profit in the amount of 2.553 bn RUR in 2007, imparts Interfax referring to the report of the company.