Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Russian Shares, Now Cheaper, Get Bear Stearns Upgrade on Profit Outlook

(Bloomberg) -- Investors should buy Russian stocks
because they are cheap given the prospects for economic and
profit growth, Bear Stearns & Co. said, changing its investment
stance on the country.

Marianna Kozintseva and Thierry Wizman, New York-based
strategists at the biggest broker for U.S. hedge funds, raised
their recommendation for Russian equities to ``market weight''
from ``underweight,'' meaning investors should now hold the
country's stocks in proportion to the shares' weightings in
international indexes.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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