Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maksim S. Shavrygin Author-Email: m.shavrygin@yahoo.com Author-Workplace-Name: State University of the Ministry of Finance of the Russia, Moscow, Russia Title: Impact of World Oil Prices on Russian Companies’ Value Abstract: The work reviews the key company pricing methods. Impact of the international oil prices on the Russian companies pricing, regardless of the industry sector and type of business, is identified on the basis of regressions and correlation analysis of the daily Urals prices and stocks of the companies included in the MICEX Index. The conclusion is that the identified impact makes the Russian stock market a less attractive instrument of the investment portfolio diversification. Classification-JEL: Q35, D23, D24 Keywords: Russian stock market, companies’ pricing, oil prices, Urals, MICEX, pricing theory Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 97-104 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: April File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2012/2/statii/2012_02_11.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:120211:p:97-104