Monday was marked by the opening of operating reports for a number of companies. According to Severstal’s reporting for the third quarter and 9 months of this year, the company reduced steel production by 9% in quarterly terms, but increased production by 5% for 9 months. Profit under RAS for nine months of the year decreased by more than 13%, to RUB 146.1 billion. Norilsk Nickel reported a decrease in nickel output for the third quarter in annual terms, while the quarterly growth rate was 21%. At the same time, the forecast for product output for the current year remained unchanged. The Russian market ended Tuesday in positive territory — the Moscow Exchange index increased by 0.04%, to 3265 points, the RTS index increased by 1% to 1102.37 points, better than the market undefined looked like the consumer sector, in which the M.Video company noted a strong report for the third quarter of 2023. At the same time, according to the company’s top management, the company does not plan to pay dividends for 2023. Yandex shares showed good growth against the backdrop of the process of consolidation of grocery services — the company united Market, Food, Shop and Market Delivery into a single business, which will reduce costs through the use of the logistics infrastructure of services. The Board of Directors of Gazprom decided to reduce the investment program by 334.34 billion rubles, to 1,965.66 billion rubles. compared to the original version for December 2022. This step will make it possible to cover the company’s obligations without the need to borrow additional funds; at the same time, reducing the investment program allows us to hope for an increase in dividend payments. On Wednesday, the market consolidated at the achieved values - the Moscow Exchange index grew by 0.01%, to 3265 points, the RTS index undefined increased by 0.11%, to 1,103 points. X5 Retail reported an increase in revenue in the third quarter by 22.9% to 796.236 billion rubles, and net profit increased by 85.7%, to 29.6 billion rubles. Yandex again pleasantly surprised investors by announcing the opening of a new stage of testing unmanned vehicles in Moscow — this time a fully autonomous car is being tested, without a person in the cabin.