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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
Updated at 21 August 2008 0:37 Moscow Time | |
Published: 28 April 2008
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RusAl Wants Norilsk Tie-Up in a Year
Combined Reports Oleg Deripaska’s United Company RusAl said Friday it would seek to combine with Norilsk Nickel, the country’s biggest mining company, in the next year and may buy shares on the open market. |
Rebranding Puts Russian Firms on World Stage
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer While Russian brands remain less recognized on a global scale than their Western and Chinese counterparts, names such as MTS, LUKoil and Baltika have started to ring a bell on the international stage. |
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UPM, Sveza to Invest $1.5Bln in Pulp Venture
By Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg UPM-Kymmene, Europe's second-largest papermaker, and Sveza Group, Russia's largest plywood producer, plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.56 billion) in a joint venture to produce pulp, lumber and wood panels in Russia. |
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Storchak Relieved of EBRD Duties
Reuters Jailed Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak has been stripped of his duties as a deputy governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Interfax reported Saturday. |
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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. |
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Speculators Hit Forex Market
By Simon Falush / Reuters Foreign exchange markets feel the weight of Russian traders, who helped pushed the pound up 4 percent against the yen last week. |
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Vekselberg Spells Out RusAl Plans
Reuters United Company RusAl and Norilsk Nickel should pool their assets to take on global giants like BHP Billiton, RusAl chairman Viktor Vekselberg said in an interview Friday. |
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Business in Brief
$20Bln to Stop Ruble's Rise | U.S. Hits Russia on Piracy | P&G Tax Claim Dropped | Lufthansa Signs Siberia Deal | Baltic Ports Boost Q1 Cargo | Turkmens Rush for Dollars | For the Record |
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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
