MT news
First Video Added to Moscow Times Web Site
The video, a 3 1/2-minute interview with Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the informal summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in Sochi on April 6. The video can be found on The Moscow Times' homepage, www.themoscowtimes.com.
Testimonials
"Intel established its presence in Russia in 1992 and since that moment onward we've been reading The Moscow Times as a source of unbiassed information we trust. Over the last years we have had positive experience of information sharing at the conferences held by The Moscow Times team. We appreciate the development of both these sources of valuable information for Intel and the entire business community in Russia."
Intel Russia
Market Matters : Oil Tax Pledge Buoys Markets
Markets surged after the swearing-in of Dmitry Medvedev as president in a pomp-filled ceremony Wednesday and a tax-cutting speech by Vladimir Putin the day after, when he was approved as prime minister.
Russia Investment Roadshow : Scenes From Last Year's Forum
 | |
 | |
| Thursday, May 15, 2008
Updated at 15 May 2008 0:17 Moscow Time | |
| The Moscow Times » Market Matters |
Issue 3899 | 12 May 2008
|
Oil Tax Pledge Buoys Markets By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Markets surged after the swearing-in of Dmitry Medvedev as president in a pomp-filled ceremony Wednesday and a tax-cutting speech by Vladimir Putin the day after, when he was approved as prime minister. |
Issue 3892 | 28 Apr 2008
|
Markets Drop by 2% As Holidays Approach By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Russian stocks fell by an average of more than 2 percent last week, underlining investors' weariness ahead of the Easter break. |
Issue 3882 | 14 Apr 2008
|
Oil and Metals Shine as RTS Breaks 2,100 By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer The RTS, the country's benchmark stock index, breached the 2,100 barrier for the first time this year, as oil and metal stocks pulled away from the field. |
Issue 3877 | 7 Apr 2008
|
Search for the Bottom Has Markets Sluggish By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer It was a strangely personal moment. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin took time out at a conference on globalization last week to answer some handwritten questions. |
Issue 3872 | 31 Mar 2008
|
Possible Oil Tax Cut Gives Markets a Lift By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer While TNK-BP's troubles may have been grabbing the wrong sort of headlines, last week's key economic news came from Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who proposed a $4.2 billion cut in annual oil taxes from next year, an eagerly awaited move that provided an overdue boost for oil stocks. |
Issue 3867 | 24 Mar 2008
|
Commodity Stocks Lose Golden Luster By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Russian shares lost some of their shine this week as gold led a plunge in commodity prices that beat down metal and oil stocks. |
Issue 3862 | 17 Mar 2008
|
Global Tailwinds Hit Russia's Stocks By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Oil and gold prices punched through to new highs last week, a rare bright spot for some speculators in what was otherwise another week of shuddering losses in the United States. |
Issue 3853 | 3 Mar 2008
|
Investors See Power Handover As Real Test By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Russia may have voted in a new president this weekend, but investors have long since moved on from thinking about who will be Vladimir Putin's successor. |
Issue 3839 | 11 Feb 2008
|
Rosneft Debt Worries Push Markets Down By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Headwinds from global markets continued to buffet Russian stocks in a volatile week of trading. |
Issue 3834 | 4 Feb 2008
|
January Closes With An 'Irrational' Selloff By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Russian stock markets bowed out of January with one of their worst months of trading in years, the benchmark RTS suffering its biggest losses since 2000. |
Issue 3829 | 28 Jan 2008
White-Knuckle Ride Tests Bouncing Bear Market By Tim Wall / Staff Writer In last week's white-knuckle ride for investors, markets plummeted globally and Russia followed suit, testing the bear-market level of 20 percent in losses before bouncing back as traders went shopping for bargains. |
Issue 3824 | 21 Jan 2008
|
Exchanges Succumb to Global Downturn By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Investors received a nasty shock last week as Russian markets finally succumbed to the downturn on global exchanges, as the RTS posted a five-day slump of 7.7 percent. |
Issue 3819 | 14 Jan 2008
|
With the Bosses Away, Investors Still Play By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer It's a slow start to the year when half the country is still on vacation. Two weeks after the ushering in of a new year, there is still a skeleton staff at many Moscow investment banks. The bosses are away, the traders are silent, and the phones barely ringing. |
Issue 3813 | 24 Dec 2007
|
Gazprom, State Top Picks for '08 By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Every new year starts with a few good resolutions, most of which are soon lying by the wayside. |
Issue 3803 | 10 Dec 2007
|
Stocks Roaring Despite Jitters By Tim Wall / Staff Writer After the State Duma elections, Russian markets tick up on the back of a flurry of deals and relief over gas price reform. |
Issue 3798 | 3 Dec 2007
|
Investors Hoping for Clarity After Election By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Investors await President Vladimir Putin's plans for the next administration. |
Issue 3793 | 26 Nov 2007
|
No Escape From the Global Market Blues By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Russian stocks suffered a battering across the board last week. |
Currency Exchange
USD/RUR - 23.5
EUR/RUR - 37.1
Weather
Most Popular Stories
2. The Next Collapse Will Be Russia's Last
3. Russians Find Refuge in Ukraine
4. President Medvedev Stresses the Law
5. There Is Nothing Normal About Corruption
Archive
| « 2008 |
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 |
Columnists
Equating Holodomor With Genocide
By Georgy Bovt
Spring Weather Brings Spring Illnesses
By Michele A. Berdy
Taking the Temperature In Georgia's Hot Spring
By Matthew Collin
The Natural-Resources And Democracy Curse
By Konstantin Sonin
Returning Direct Elections
By Nikolai Petrov
Georgia Is Medvedev's First Foreign Policy Test
By Vladimir Frolov
An Early Assessment of Putin's Foreign Policy
By Fyodor Lukyanov
The Fed Can Help Russia Lower Its Inflation
By Martin Gilman
Olympic Gold in Abkhazia
By Yulia Latynina
Remaining a Moral Victor
By Alexei Bayer
A Fight for Peace in Georgia
By Alexander Golts
High-Stakes Soap Opera
By Alexei Pankin
Medvedev the Bookworm
By Mark H. Teeter
Two-Headed Eagle Infected With Bugs
By Boris Kagarlitsky
