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 MICEX index grew up by 4.9% in the period between July 1 thru 25 basically in response to Gazprom stock price rise 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 domes?? c corporate bond market...

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...

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 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...

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 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 October 2012, continuing instability of the global economy has resulted in the sustained high volatility of the Russian financial market. The average daily turnover of the government securities market has increased by 51% over the month, while the turnover in the RF securities market has...

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...

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 de¬clined on average by 2.2%. Dollar exchange rate remained at the level below Rb/Dollar 30.35, while...