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Oil-Giant YUKOS New At NEWEX

Date 18/12/2001

First Level ADR´s (American Depository Receipts) of the Russian oil producer Yukos are now being traded at NEWEX (New Europe Exchange) (SIN 632 319). Baader Wertpapierhandelsbank, Munich is acting as lead broker in floor trading. An inclusion into Xetra will soon be conducted, as NEWEX released.

Yukos is the second largest fully-integrated oil producer in Russia with proven reserves of about 11.8 billion barrels (approx. 1.6 billion tons) and a daily output of more than one million barrels (approximately 15 percent of total Russian oil production), of which 45 percent are exported to Europe and Asia.

Yukos has market capitalisation of 11.2 billion euros and a free float of 22 percent.