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Focus: Kruk’s management finishes revising strategic options, no financial investor chosen; Stock Spirits’ solid 3Q18 results; Turkish auto – November LV sales down 42% yoy, supported by tax cut; Magyar Telecom extends 2,100MHz licence

HEADLINES:
• Kruk: management finishes revising strategic options, no financial investor chosen
• Stock Spirits: solid 3Q18 results
• Turkish automotive: November LV sales down 42% yoy, supported by tax cut POSITIVE
• Magyar Telecom: extends its licence for 2,100MHz spectrum for HUF 11bn NEUTRAL
• WOOD’s Winter in Prague: postcards - GPW, O2 CR, DIGI Communications, Sphera Franchise Group, MTS, Norilsk Nickel, Rostelecom, Emlak Konut, Alpha Bank, National Bank of Greece, OTE, Siauliu Bankas, Ferrexpo
• The Rear-View Mirror - EME markets: Turkish equities stand out in November
• Short News (CCOLA, MOEX)
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Digi Communications NV

Dogus Otomotiv Servis ve Ticaret A.S.

Dogus Otomotiv Servis Ve Ticaret is an automotive importer and distributor in Turkey. Co. represents 14 international brands each of which is engaged in the following sectors: Passenger cars, Light commercial vehicles, Heavy commercial vehicles, Industrial and marine engines, and Cooling systems.Co. provides its individual and corporate customers with a portfolio of more than 80 models. Co. competes in the industrial and marine engines market by representing the brand Scania Engines and in the cooling systems market representing Thermo King brand. Co.'s sales and service network is comprised of over 500 contact points.

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.

Ferrexpo plc

Ferrexpo is an iron ore pellet producer. Co. produces, develops and markets its product for sale to the metallurgical industry. Co. operate two mines and a processing plant near Kremenchug in Ukraine, and an interest in a port in Odessa. Co. also owns logistics assets in Austria which operate a fleet of vessels operating on the Rhine and Danube waterways and an ocean-going vessel. Co.'s operations are integrated from iron ore mining through to iron ore concentrate and pellet production and subsequent logistics. Co.'s mineral properties lie within the Kremenchug Magnetic Anomaly and are being extracted at the Gorishne-Plavninskoye and Lavrikovskoye and Yeristovskoye deposits.

Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.S.

Ford Otomotiv Sanayi is an automobile manufacturing company based in Turkey. Co. operates as a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and the Koc Group of Companies. Co. is engaged in manufacturing, assembling and selling motor vehicles, primarily commercial vehicles, imports and sells passenger cars and manufactures and imports and sells spare parts of those vehicles. Co. has two plants located in Kocaeli and Eskisehir, has a spare part distribution warehouse in Kartal, Istanbul and a branch in Tubitak Marmara Research Centre, Gebze Campus Technological Free Zone (TEKSEB).

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization is a full-service telecommunications group. Co. provides local, long-distance and international fixed-line telecommunications services in Greece and Romania, and mobile telephony services through its Cosmote subsidiary in Greece, as well as in Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania. Co. also provides internet access services and Internet Protocol (IP) -based telecommunications applications, as well as information technology application development and hosting services using IP technologies. Also, Co. provides several other telecommunications services, including value-added services and public telephone services.

Kruk S.A.

Kruk SA. Kruk SA is a Poland-based company, which is engaged in the business support industry. The Company is a multi-operator, which offers loss prevention and debt collection services. The Company divides its business into two main operating segments: Debt Purchase, including acquisition of non-performing debt portfolios, and Debt Collection Outsourcing, offering fee-based collection of debt on client's behalf, focused on consumer and corporate loans. The Company provides services to financial institutions and large corporate customers. It manages receivables of banks, credit intermediaries, leasing companies and digital platform providers, among others. The Company's operating activities concentrate in a number of countries, such as Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Spain. The Company's subsidiaries include Kruk Deutschland GmbH, Presco Investments Sarl and Espand Soluciones de Gestion y Recuperacion de Deuda SL, among others.

Magyar Telekom Telecommunications

Magyar Telekom is engaged in the providing fixed line and mobile telecommunication services for public and business customers. Co. provides voice and non-voice (SMS, MMS, internet, data and content provision) within mobile services; voice, data, internet and TV services within fixed line services. In addition, Co. sells equipment needed for using fixed line and mobile services (telephones, tablets, notebooks, TV sets etc.).

Mobile TeleSystems PJSC

Mobile Telesystems is a provider of mobile cellular communications services in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to consumers and corporate customers, employing technology based primarily on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). Co. had a mobile subscriber base of around 102.5 million (77.3 million in Russia, 20.4 million in Ukraine, 2.1 million in Turkmenistan, 1.6 million in Uzbekistan and 1.1 million in Armenia). In addition to standard voice services, Co. provides improved services, including voice mail, short message service, general packet radio service, and various SMS- and GPRS-based information and entertainment services.

National Bank of Greece S.A. ADS

Rostelecom PJSC

Rostelecom PJSC provides communication services (including local, intra-zone, long-distance domestic and international fixed-line telephone services, mobile services), data transmission, Internet, Pay TV, VPN and data centers services, rent of communication channels and radio communication services in the territory of Russian Federation. Co. operates the main intercity network and the international telecommunications gateways of the Russian Federation, carrying voice and data traffic that originates in its own network and other national and international operators' networks to other national and international operators for termination.

Siauliu Bankas

Siauliu bankas AB is a Lithuania-based company engaged in the provision of commercial banking and financial services to private and corporate clients. It offers such services as provision of bank accounts, offering the debit and credit cards and safety deposit boxes, cash and non-cash money transfers, operations with securities, currency exchange, lending and investment services, Internet banking, financial brokerage and real estate development. It also issues monetary warranties, guarantees and other warranty liabilities, as well as performs operations with payable documents, such as checks and others. The Bank has several branches, numerous client service units and subsidiaries.

Sphera Franchise Group SA

Stock Spirits Group

Stock Spirits Group is a spirits company. Co. along with its subsidiaries are engaged in the production and distribution of branded spirits in Central and Eastern Europe. Co.'s spirits include vodka, flavoured vodka, rum, brandy and herbal bitter liqueurs. Co. has more than 40 brands and export internationally to more than 40 countries worldwide. Co.'s brands include Zoladkowa de Luxe, Lubelska, Zoladkowa Gorzka, Stock Prestige, 1906, Fernet Stock, Bozkov, Amundsen, Keglevich, Limonce, Stock Original, Keglevich, Golden, Stock 84, Fernet Stock Citrus, and Hammerhead. Co. has operations in Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi A.S.

Warsaw Stock Exchange

Gielda Papierow Wartosciowych w Warszawie SA (Warsaw Stock Exchange, GPW) is a Poland-based stock exchange. It is a parent entity of WSE Group that offers products and services within its trading markets of equity, derivate, fixed income and structured products. It also distributes market data. The Company has two business lines: Financial market, which includes trading in equities, derivatives, fixed-income and other instruments, listing, and information services; and Commodity market, which includes trading in electricity and property rights in certificates of origin, operation of a register of certificates of origin, clearing, trade and technical trade operator services. As of December 31, 2011, it operates two wholly owned subsidiaries, WSEInfoEngine SA, providing data transmission and information services; and Instytut Rynku Kapitalowego WSE Research SA, engaged in publishing; as well as 92.47%-owned BondSpot SA.

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Wood and Company
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