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Central Bank of Russia press release
February 2nd, 2015
Central Bank of Russia issued a press release informing: On including securities in Bank of Russia Lombard list Pursuant to the decision of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors of 30 January 2015, the following securities were included ...
Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to visit London
January 30th, 2015
Yanis Varoufakis to meet George Osborne and City bankers on whistlestop tour of Europe to drum up support for Athens’ Syriza government The new Greek finance minister is to call on George Osborne and City bankers next week as part of ...
What Would Exclusion From Payment System SWIFT Mean For Russia?
January 29th, 2015
Discussions among European leaders about new sanctions on Moscow have again raised fears that the SWIFT international payments system might be cut off, a move that experts warn would wreak financial havoc on Russia. The Society for Worldwide Interbank ...
Bank of Russia Picks New Monetary Policy Chief as Ruble Plunges
January 15th, 2015
Russia’s central bank replaced its head of monetary policy after a series of emergency measures failed to contain the ruble’s decline, drawing criticism from President Vladimir Putin. Dmitry Tulin, a former central bank official who also worked at the International Monetary ...
Plunging Ruble Unsettles Russians, Poses Test for Putin
December 17th, 2014
As Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratcheted up the conflict with the West for most of the year, the economic fallout on ordinary Russians has been limited. Suddenly, though, the plunging ruble is reawakening fears of rising prices and ...
U.S. Shares Rise With Dollar as Oil Surges Amid Data
December 3rd, 2014
U.S. stocks rose toward records, as energy shares rallied with the price of crude and investors weighed data on hiring and the services sector. European equities climbed and the dollar gained on speculation the region’s central bank will add ...
Saudi, UAE signal no push for OPEC oil cut
November 26th, 2014
OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and fellow member the United Arab Emirates signalled on Wednesday they were unlikely to push for a major change in oil output at the group’s meeting this week to prop up prices that have collapsed by a ...
Cheap-Oil Era Tilts Geopolitical Power to U.S.
November 20th, 2014
A new age of abundant and cheap energy supplies is redrawing the world’s geopolitical landscape, weakening and potentially threatening the legitimacy of some governments while enhancing the power of others. Some changes already are evident. Surging U.S. oil production enabled America ...
As Ruble Falls Even Teeth Cost Too Much to Fix
November 19th, 2014
In Rostov-on-Don, a Russian port city of 1.1 million people just east of the Ukrainian border, signs of the fallout from the ruble’s collapse are everywhere. There’s the 27-year-old entrepreneur whose storage facility is packed to the ceiling with ...
Russia may ban circulation of US dollar
November 6th, 2014
Russia may ban the circulation of the United States dollar. The State Duma has already been submitted a relevant bill banning and terminating the circulation of USD in Russia, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports. If the bill is approved, Russian ...
