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Business: RenCap Cuts RTS '08 Target to 2,350
Renaissance Capital on Monday slashed its year-end forecast for the benchmark RTS Index from 3,000 to 2,350 and increased its equity risk premium for the country from 4 percent to 5.5 percent in a sign of continued investor jitters.
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| Thursday, August 21, 2008
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Published: 14 February 2008
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Business in Brief
SocGen's Rosbank BuyCity Center to Remove AdsNorilsk Environmental CaseLufthansa Overflight RightsBad Roads Take $73Bln Toll21 Million Left in PovertyAlekperov to Go to IraqRostelecom to Sell HoldingFor the Record |
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Sberbank Increases Stock Trades
Reuters Sberbank has not raised its limits on the stock it owns but is getting more active in the market, deputy chief executive Bella Zlatkis said Wednesday. |
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Court Calls for Break in BoNY Case
Bloomberg The Moscow Arbitration Court called a break in hearings in a $22.5 billion lawsuit brought by the Federal Customs Service against the Bank of New York as wrangling continued over a document the bank's lawyers say was forged. |
Barclays Tipped to Buy Into Expobank
By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer British banking giant Barclays, whose investment-banking arm left Russia in 1999 nursing $250 million in losses, could be poised to enter the country's fragmented market with the acquisition of small-size lender Expobank as it looks to tap the country's underdeveloped mortgage market. |
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New Foster Project for St. Pete
Bloomberg Norman Foster, the British architect of the Moskva-City skyscraper that will be Europe's tallest, was selected to design a $220 million complex in St. Petersburg, his first foray into elite housing in Russia. |
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Bootlegged Booze Sales Fall 14%, Industry Says
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Fewer Russians are choosing bootlegged spirits and industrial alcohol over legally produced vodka and liquor, Pavel Shapkin, the president of the National Alcohol Association, said Wednesday. |
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Lenta Mulls Sale to Fund Superstores
Bloomberg Lenta, the country's third-biggest food retailer, may sell a stake of as much as 20 percent to raise funds for new superstores. |
Medvedev Backs Farming TV Channel
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called for a 24-hour television channel on farming in an apparent bid to win support from the country's farmers ahead of next month's presidential vote. |
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Rosneft Eyes Indian LNG Stake
Combined Reports Rosneft, the country's largest crude oil producer, may buy a stake in a liquefied natural gas processing plant planned by Indian state energy firm ONGC in the southern Indian city of Mangalore, a senior Russian official said Wednesday. |
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Russia's Upside in the Georgia Conflict
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Georgian Crisis Is a Trap for U.S. Leadership
By Fyodor Lukyanov
Looking Into Saakashvili's Caucasus Soul
By Yulia Latynina
A Tried and True Diversion Tactic
By Konstantin Sonin
Still Going for Their Gold
By Mark H. Teeter
Fighting Russian Tanks With Patriotic Defiance
By Matthew Collin
Medvedev's Toughest Presidential Test
By Georgy Bovt
The Failure of Realpolitik
By Alexander Golts
Finding Out Who's to Blame for This War
By Alexei Pankin
Georgia Set the Perfect Trap
By Vladimir Frolov
The Great Writer Who Buried Communism
By Yevgeny Kiselyov
The Same Old Presidential Reserve
By Nikolai Petrov
Cleaning the Kitchen, Clothes and Mechel
By Michele A. Berdy
WTO Can Place Russia on the Right Track
By Anders Aslund
Traffic Police Reflect Russia's Value System
By Alexei Bayer
The Missiles of July
By Richard Lourie
Immunity From the Oil Curse
By Martin Gilman
