OREANDA-NEWS. January 22, 2010. Veles Capital released daily market review:

 In 2009 Polimetal upped gold output by 9%, silver – by 1%. In 2009 Polimetal upped the output of gold by 9% versus 2008 to 311 thousand ounces, silver – by 1% to 17.3 mn ounces. In 4Q Polimetal upped the output of silver by 1% to 4.6 mn ounces, output of gold – by 35% to 100 thousand ounces. Growth of gold output in 4Q is due to the plant at Vorontsovskoe entering the full capacity, increased metal content at Hakandzhinskoe deposit, and also the fact that within the two months of production at Varvarinskoe were transferred to the accounts of Polimetal. Not considering Varvarinskoe annual production formed 298 thousand ounces, which matches the forecast (290-300 thousand ounces).

FAS is against letting abroad the control over Megafon. Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of RF believes that simultaneous conduction of deals by Altimo on Vimpelcom and Megafon is unacceptable, announced the head of FAS Igor Artemev to the journalists on Thursday in Moscow. “We said already that conducting deals on Vimpelcom, Ukrainian assets and Telenor, at the same time with deals on TeliaSonera and Alfa again on Megafon is unfavorable and even unacceptable”, - he said. Given information is provided by Interfax agency.

Price of RusAl shares placement within the frames of IPO formed 1.39 USD, capitalization – 21.05 bn USD. Price of RusAl’s shares placement within the frames of IPO formed 10.8 Hong-Kong USD (1.39 USD), which correlates with attracting 2.239 bn USD and capitalization of the whole company in the volume of 21.05 bn USD.