OREANDA-NEWS. According to Veles Capital's analysts, the last trading day of past week was dominated by downward corrections. US and Asian markets had their prior trades go down, bringing down Russian market along with them. However, most of correction occurred within first minutes of trades, and after that, quotes fluctuated at new lesser levels for most of the day. But, after US markets closed, Russian shares began showing first sings of upcoming climb, restoring part of its morning drop. Friday brought gathering of Norilsk Nickel's shareholders, which was expected to appoint new board of directors, with new representatives of Mikhail Prokhorov taking their respective seats.

Even so, results proved to be completely unexpected. Prokhorov's representatives voted against appointment of new board. Given fact caused a drop of company's quotes. But, at the background of market's general trends, mentioned quotes compensated for fall towards the day's closing. Throughout the whole day, shares of Sberbank looked good above all other. RTS lost 0.46% last Friday, going backwards to 2163.11 points. Top negative influence was caused by stock of oil & gas sector: Gazprom (-1.34%), LUKOIL (-0.95%) and Surgutneftegas (-2.39%). Index was supported by securities of: Sberbank (+1.16%), Uralkaly (+6.52%) and TMK (+3.18%). Friday's turnover of RTS dropped and formed 46 mn USD. Top volume winners of Friday - Sberbank (10 mln USD), UES (6.5 mln USD) and WGC-5 (5.5 mln USD).