MoEx says to add Mail.ru, Qiwi, Petropavlovsk, Rosseti to indices

MOSCOW, Aug 27 (PRIME) -- Depositary receipts of tech giant Mail.ru Group and payment system operator Qiwi as well as ordinary shares of gold producer Petropavlovsk Plc. and state power grid holding Rosseti will be added to the MOEX Russia Index and the RTS Index from September 18, the Moscow Exchange said on Thursday.

“Depository receipts of Mail.ru Group and ordinary shares of Petropavlovsk Plc. will complement the Broad Market Index while ordinary shares of RBC will be excluded. The constituent list of the Blue Chip Index will remain unchanged,” the bourse said.

On recommendations from the Index Committee Moscow Exchange will change the industrial classification of Yandex N.V. and state Mail.ru Group and Yandex N.V. as belonging to the IT sector and delete the shares of foreign issuer Yandex N.V. from the constituent list of the Consumer Index.

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