OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2009. Veles Capital released daily market review:

TMK gained 204 mn of net loss by IAS in 1H 2009 versus a year before. TMK gained 204 mn USD of net loss by IAS in 1H 2009 versus profit a year earlier. Sales formed 1.478 bn USD (down by 38%), EBITDA – 113 mn USD (drop by 3.6 times). Loss before tax formed 266 mn USD.

Gazprom is expecting to return to before-crisis gas consumption levels in RF in early 2010. The volume of gas consumption in RF by the beginning of 2010 will reach the before-crisis level, announced the deputy chairman of Gazprom’s management Valeriy Golubev at the session, dedicated to the gas supplying to the regions of RF in Saint-Petersburg last Friday.