OREANDA-NEWS. Shares of Rosneft oil company are now being listed into indices calculated by MSCI Barra company. Message of MSCI Barra indicates that changes into current listings will be introduced starting with November 30th. Weight of Rosneft's over MSCI Emerging Markets will make 0.63%. Rosneft was announced to be among largest newcomers of MSCI Emerging Markets, along with Brazil's Itausa, SAR's Remgro and Chinese companies - China Merchants Bank and China Coal Energy. MSCI previously reported that shares of Rosneft, preferred shares of Sberbank and GDRs of TMK will be included in MSCI Russia Standard during May 2008.

Veles Capital's analysts estimate this news to be positive for shares of Rosneft, as many investment funds form the company's portfolios according to the structure of the given index and when new companies are introduced to index, funds will have to rebalance their positions by achieving a corresponding share of securities listed in the index, hence, it means 0.63% for shares of Rosneft.