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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: 31 January 2008
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Oil Stocks Retreat, Led By Rosneft
Reuters Russian stocks fell on renewed concern that a recession in the United States will hurt global demand for oil and gas, the country's biggest exports. |
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Medvedev Bemoans Pollution
By Steve Gutterman / The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin and his likely successor, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, on Wednesday called for sweeping environmental improvements, saying cleaning up Soviet-era pollution and reducing industrial waste were crucial for the country's economy and public health. |
Billionaires See a Golden Opportunity
By Robin Paxton / Reuters The country's metals billionaires are moving into gold, attracted by record prices and the prospect of carving a share of production that is forecast to rise 40 percent by 2015. |
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Lenta Shareholders' Fight Goes to Court
Bloomberg Shareholders of Lenta, the country's third-biggest food retailer, are battling in court for control of the company after failing to agree on funding for expansion. |
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Fridman to Take Smaller Role at Bank, Focus on Alfa Group
The Moscow Times Billionaire Mikhail Fridman is set to resign Friday as chairman of Alfa Bank to focus on the overall management of Alfa Group. |
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Greenspan Warns Russia Over Inflation
The Moscow Times Former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said Wednesday that the double-digit inflation rate was hurting Russia's economy, Interfax reported. |
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Turkmens Peeved at Ukrainian Pipe Snub
By Alexander Vershinin / The Associated Press Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday scoffed at Ukraine's proposal to build a new pipeline that would carry Turkmen natural gas to European markets, saying other nations should consult it before making such statements. |
AvtoVAZ May Have 2008 IPO
The Moscow Times AvtoVAZ, the country's biggest carmaker, may have an IPO this fall, Troika Dialog chief Ruben Vardanyan told journalists Wednesday on the sidelines of an investment conference. |
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Business in Brief
MegaFon May Sell SharesSeverstal's Hyundai TalksS7 Sales Advance 24%Electricity Prices May RiseUES's Mosenergosbyt PriceCoal Sales Won't Fill GapLUKoil to Buy TGK-8Gazprom to Up Sulfur PricesChina Wants Gazprom TalksRaspadskaya Raises OutputNoga Problem to Be SettledEni Unit May Bid for FieldAeroflot Profit Up 92%For the Record |
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Balancing Growth and Environment
Lots of Work but Too Few Workers
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Columnists
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
