The MICEX index was declining in the first decade in November 2013 until the middle of the month when the stock market saw the beginning of insignificant uptrend in response to oil price recovery. The stock market capitalization reached Rb 24,68 trillion (38.05% of GDP) as of November 26, 2013....

Oil prices increase in the beginning of October 2013 was followed by a 4.2% growth in the MICEX index in the first half of the month. As of October 28, 2013, the MICEX index increased 2.7% since the start of the month and reached 1511 points. OJSC Norilsk Nickel's stocks showed maximum growth...

Crude oil prices advanced late in August 2013 and pushed up the MICEX index by 5.52% during the first decade in September 2013. As of September 26, 2013, the MICEX index advanced by 8.6% since the beginning of the month and reached 1485 points. OJSC Sberbank stocks grew up by 14.39% during 26...

In August 2013, the MICEX index saw a monthly fall of 2.4% after Sberbank and VTB encountered some downtrend in the stock market. Furthermore, stock market capitalization contracted by 2.2% to Rb 23.41 trillion, or 37.4% of GDP. The domestic corporate bond market was governed by fairly...

The MICEX index grew up by 4.9% in the period between July 1 thru 25 basically in response to Gazprom stock price which rose by 20.37%. Stock market capitalization in that period increased by 4% or Rb 941bn to account for 37.6% of GDP as of July 25. In July 2013, the domestic corporate bond...

The Russian stock market in June was under the negative influence of the dynamics in international stock markets. Reduction in dividends on shares of “Gazprom” to Rb 8.97 per share for the 2011, to 5.99 rubles per share as of a result of 2012) led to a decrease in stock quotations of the...

The growth of the MICEX Index over the course of May, briefly interrupted by its small incursion into negative territory in mid-May, was caused by the rise in oil futures prices and the inflow of foreign portfolio investments. However, it was not sufficient to reverse the downward trend in the...

The stock market's behavior was influenced in the main by the declining oil futures prices. The negative dynamics of stock indexes resulted in a drop of the stock market's capitalization over the month by 3.71%; however, Blue Chips demonstrated growth to 9.07% per month and to 13.81% per annum....