The bank lending market stalled in 2016, giving rise to fundraising through the domestic corporate bond market. The market growth was driven up primarily by increase in foreign-currency loans. Like in previous years, about 25% of new bonded loans in the rouble bond segment were issued by...

In 2018, bank lending to corporate customers is gradually gaining momentum mainly by means of rouble loans to non-financial institutions. Domestic bond market dynamics slowed down dramatically due to reduction of new borrowings by the Rosneft oil company. In 2018, the share of bond loans on the...

In 2018, banking credit plays the key role in the provision of the corporate sector's borrowed resources. From 2014 through 2017, increment of the total bond market debt exceeded Rb 1 trillion, which was comparable with the bank debt growth of the corporate borrowers. Bank lending notably...

Early in 2018, growth rates of bank lending to non-financial institutions are gradually growing. The market of domestic bonded loans is building up its positions in the total funding of the real sector of the Russian economy. Issuers from the oil and gas sector occupy the leading position there

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....

The stock market dynamics in March was affected by several developments, such as a decrease in oil futures prices and the crisis situation in Cyprus. From the beginning of the month the growth was replaced by a reverse trend. The dynamics of stock market indices has led to a decrease in...

The Russian stock market in February was characterized by a minor correction in prices of majority of securities traded in the market, after growth in the previous two months. Oil futures have declined on average by 2.2%. Dollar exchange rate remained at the level below Rb/Dollar 30.35, while...

The new year's beginning was marked by a generally positive behavior of the stock market. The quotation changes displayed by major Blue Chips over January were multi-vectored. At the same time, it should be noted that the observed growth in prices was sustained by Russian investors, while...

In December 2012, the Russian financial markets demonstrated a similar trend to the previous months, characterized by significant volatility. An average monthly trading volume of the Russian Federation for the period increased by 4%, while the market for government securities and futures...

The "Big Twenty" fears of a slowdown in the global economy, downgrading of France credit rating and volatility of oil prices have led to deterioration in the Russian financial markets in November 2012. Herewith, the average daily market turnover of governmental securities has decreased most...