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Focus: keeping our BUYs on X5 and Lenta, and our HOLD on Magnit; Turkish banks – wholesale funding – a wrap-up of recent developments; Aselsan – Defence Executive Committee Meeting (SSIK) today; Turkish Airlines’ September traffic

HEADLINES:
• Russian food retail: zero lfl is the new reality (X5 and Lenta stay BUY; Magnit (local and GDR) stays HOLD)
• Turkish banks: wholesale funding - a wrap-up of recent developments
• Aselsan: Defence Executive Committee Meeting (SSIK) today
• Turkish Airlines: September traffic slows down due to capacity constraints at Ataturk NEUTRAL
• Emlak Konut: sells 4,194 units in 9M18 NEUTRAL
• Short News (PEO, GNB, TPE, PKN, OTP)
Underlyings
Akbank TAS

Akbank is a commercial bank. Co. operates in five segments: Retail banking offers a range of retail services, such as deposit accounts, loans, credit cards, insurance products and asset management services; Corporate and Small and Medium Size Enterprises banking provides financial solutions and banking services; Treasury Activities conducts regional and foreign currency spot and forward transactions, bonds and other domestic securities; Private banking offers banking and investment transactions for upper-income groups and the International banking provides services for foreign trade financing and Turkish Lira clearances, and money transfers through agent financial institutions.

Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Class B

Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi A.g.

Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS (Emlak Konut) is a Turkey-based real estate investment trust. It is engaged in coordinating and executing real estate property projects mostly housing, besides, commercial units, educational units, social facilities, and all related aspects, controlling and building audit services of the ongoing projects, marketing and selling the finished housing. The ultimate parent and ultimate controlling party of the Company is T.C. Basbakanlik Toplu Konut Idaresi Baskanligi (the Housing Development Administration of Turkey, TOKI). The Company's projects include Agaoglu My Towerland, Alemdag Emlak Konutlari, Varyap Meridian, Mavisehir Modern, Spradon Quartz and Gebze Emlak Konutlari.

Magnit PJSC Sponsored GDR RegS

Turk Hava Yollari A.O.

Turk Hava Yollari is engaged in the airline industry with the airline flying to 103 destinations, throughout Turkey and internationally. As of the year end, Co. maintains 66 aircrafts with a total seat capacity of 10,672, and leases a A300-200 cargo aircraft. Co. has various services for their customers which include: various ways of checking in and on-line ticket sales.

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi Turk Anonim Ortakligi

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi (Vakifbank) is a banking and financial services company based in Turkey. Co. offers products and services that cover corporate, commercial, investment and small-scale enterprise banking as well as the retail and private banking sectors. Co. also provides financial leasing, portfolio management, real estate, insurance and factoring services through its financial participations. Co.'s deposit products include time and demand deposits, as well as loans comprise spot loans, foreign currency indexed loans, consumer loans, automobile and housing loans, working capital loans, gold loans, foreign currency loans, eximbank loans, and pre-export loans.

X5 Retail Group N.V. Sponsored GDR RegS

X5 Retail Group is a holding company. The main activity of Co. is the development and operation of grocery retail stores. Co. operates a retail chain of soft-discount, supermarket and hypermarket stores under the brand names "Pyaterochka", "Perekrestok" and "Karusel" in major population centres in Russia, including but not limited to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Samara, Lipetsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ekaterinburg and Kiev, Ukraine.

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Wood and Company
Wood and Company

WOOD & Company is the leading investment bank in Emerging Europe. Founded in 1991 and head-quartered in Prague, our footprint spans the region and touches investors around the globe.

A pioneer in Emerging Europe, WOOD executed many of the first CEE equity trades and landmark investment banking transactions. Our electronic trading platform was the first in the region, and remains the best. We are continually expanding our relevance and reach in these ever-evolving markets.

Our equity market share reflects our stature: 7% in Warsaw, 20% in Bucharest, 16% in Hungary, 40% in Prague and 5% in Vienna. Our distribution is unparalleled, with the largest salesforce in the region, servicing a uniquely diverse investor base.

We couple local expertise with a truly international perspective. With offices on the ground in the region, and in key financial hubs such as London and Milano, we are never far from our clients and we remain at the forefront of what’s afoot in the CEE emerging and frontier landscape.

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