SPDR S&P Russia (RBL) 17.44 $RBL
Ukraine ceasefire deal reached
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 4:45AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
'No good news yet' from Ukraine meeting
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 3:01AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Credit Investors Spurn Oil Sovereigns
Markit - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 10:00AM CST
As the oil tide recedes, oil-exporting sovereign entities have been treated with increasingly bearish sentiment by credit investors. Oil has seen its price halve since the end of July last year, from around $100 per barrel to around $50 today...
USO: 19.62 (+0.44), UCO: 9.19 (+0.39), OLO: 7.58 (+0.02), DTO: 81.31 (-5.12), BNO: 23.05 (+0.78), UWTI: 3.71 (+0.23), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), SCO: 70.05 (-3.45), SZO: 60.00 (-4.31), DNO: 54.24 (-1.32), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), DBO: 14.88 (+0.08), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), OIL: 12.01 (+0.34), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), OLEM: 25.07 (+0.30), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28), DWTI: 95.90 (-7.40), NGE: 7.51 (-0.06), USL: 26.81 (+0.40)
Bettin' On Putin's Russia
Chris DeMuth Jr. - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 9:10AM CST
Originally Published on February 1, 2015 Putin's Opponents In early 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky confronted Vladimir Putin over Russia's state corruption. Following his break with the Kremlin, Khodorkovsky's relationship with Putin declined...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russia Unveils Anti-Crisis Plan To Rescue Its Economy
Global Risk Insights - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 4:32AM CST
In response to Standard and Poor's downgrade of Russia's credit rating to junk, the government has adopted a $35 billion anti-crisis plan. However, the document is ambiguous and the measures are unlikely to remedy the Russian economy. On January...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Where The Real Risks Are: Europe And Russia
Brad McMillan - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 3:34AM CST
This article originally appeared on the Independent Observer Blog . I wrote Monday about what I see as the two major domestic risks to the U.S. economic recovery, neither of which is worth worrying about too much. The two immediate risks we...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), GREK: 13.65 (+0.66), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
From Russia With Love?
Jeffrey Saut - Seeking Alpha - Tue Feb 10, 1:33PM CST
The big news late last week was German Chancellor Angela Merkel's and French President Francois Hollande's emergency trip to Russia for peace talks with President Putin. Obviously, the situation in the Ukraine is heating up again or such Herculean...
SPY: 209.78 (+0.86), GREK: 13.65 (+0.66), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Carry Trades Returns: More Pressure For Ruble And CBR
Constantin Gurdgiev - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 6:22AM CST
Carry trades involve borrowing in one currency at lower interest rates (say in Euro or Japanese Yen) and 'carrying' borrowed funds into investment or lending in another currency, bearing higher interest rates (e.g. into Australia or New Zealand, or...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Leaders shoot for Ukraine deal in Minsk
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 2:36AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russian Services And Composite PMIs: January
Constantin Gurdgiev - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 6:19AM CST
Russian manufacturing PMI slipped deeper into contractionary territory posting 47.6 in January compared to 48.9 in December, as covered here : Today's release of the Services PMI adds to the gloom. Services PMI posted its fourth consecutive monthly...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Investing In The Russian Market: Oil ETFs Are Better Than Russia-Focused ETFs
Vladimir Zernov - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 02, 10:34PM CST
USO: 19.62 (+0.44), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), BNO: 23.05 (+0.78), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russian Central Bank Roulette: Rubble The Ruble Or The Banking System?
Craig Pirrong - Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 9:04AM CST
On Friday the Central Bank of Russia surprised pretty much everyone by cutting its policy interest rate from 17 percent to 15 percent. Bloomberg lays responsibility at Putin's feet, and no doubt he had to approve. But the evidence the article cites...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Will The Russian Ruble Collapse... Again?
Anthony Cataldo - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 12:25AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), SNE: 27.30 (+0.19), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), PG: 85.90 (-0.13), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russia GDP to contract 3% in 2015
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Jan 31, 4:01PM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russia central bank cuts key rate
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Jan 30, 5:23AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
EU extends Russian sanctions
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Jan 30, 2:31AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russian Market Will Remain Under Pressure
Vladimir Zernov - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 2:07PM CST
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Too Quick To Exaggerate SWIFT Data
Marc Chandler - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 9:51AM CST
The media has pounced on a report from SWIFT, the international messaging platform for financial transactions, which showed a rise in the use of the Chinese yuan to record levels. According to SWIFT, the use of the yuan surpassed the Australian and...
FXA: 77.69 (+0.23), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), CYB: 25.18 (+0.03), FXB: 151.21 (+0.01), FXY: 81.87 (+0.09), FXC: 79.78 (+0.19), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01)
Ruble rebounds following S&P downgrade
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 27, 3:07AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Ukraine ceasefire deal reached
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 4:45AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
'No good news yet' from Ukraine meeting
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 12, 3:01AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Credit Investors Spurn Oil Sovereigns
Markit - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 10:00AM CST
As the oil tide recedes, oil-exporting sovereign entities have been treated with increasingly bearish sentiment by credit investors. Oil has seen its price halve since the end of July last year, from around $100 per barrel to around $50 today...
USO: 19.62 (+0.44), UCO: 9.19 (+0.39), OLO: 7.58 (+0.02), DTO: 81.31 (-5.12), BNO: 23.05 (+0.78), UWTI: 3.71 (+0.23), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), SCO: 70.05 (-3.45), SZO: 60.00 (-4.31), DNO: 54.24 (-1.32), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), DBO: 14.88 (+0.08), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), OIL: 12.01 (+0.34), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), OLEM: 25.07 (+0.30), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28), DWTI: 95.90 (-7.40), NGE: 7.51 (-0.06), USL: 26.81 (+0.40)
Bettin' On Putin's Russia
Chris DeMuth Jr. - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 9:10AM CST
Originally Published on February 1, 2015 Putin's Opponents In early 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky confronted Vladimir Putin over Russia's state corruption. Following his break with the Kremlin, Khodorkovsky's relationship with Putin declined...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russia Unveils Anti-Crisis Plan To Rescue Its Economy
Global Risk Insights - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 4:32AM CST
In response to Standard and Poor's downgrade of Russia's credit rating to junk, the government has adopted a $35 billion anti-crisis plan. However, the document is ambiguous and the measures are unlikely to remedy the Russian economy. On January...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Where The Real Risks Are: Europe And Russia
Brad McMillan - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 3:34AM CST
This article originally appeared on the Independent Observer Blog . I wrote Monday about what I see as the two major domestic risks to the U.S. economic recovery, neither of which is worth worrying about too much. The two immediate risks we...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), GREK: 13.65 (+0.66), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
From Russia With Love?
Jeffrey Saut - Seeking Alpha - Tue Feb 10, 1:33PM CST
The big news late last week was German Chancellor Angela Merkel's and French President Francois Hollande's emergency trip to Russia for peace talks with President Putin. Obviously, the situation in the Ukraine is heating up again or such Herculean...
SPY: 209.78 (+0.86), GREK: 13.65 (+0.66), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Carry Trades Returns: More Pressure For Ruble And CBR
Constantin Gurdgiev - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 6:22AM CST
Carry trades involve borrowing in one currency at lower interest rates (say in Euro or Japanese Yen) and 'carrying' borrowed funds into investment or lending in another currency, bearing higher interest rates (e.g. into Australia or New Zealand, or...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Leaders shoot for Ukraine deal in Minsk
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 2:36AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russian Services And Composite PMIs: January
Constantin Gurdgiev - Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 6:19AM CST
Russian manufacturing PMI slipped deeper into contractionary territory posting 47.6 in January compared to 48.9 in December, as covered here : Today's release of the Services PMI adds to the gloom. Services PMI posted its fourth consecutive monthly...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Investing In The Russian Market: Oil ETFs Are Better Than Russia-Focused ETFs
Vladimir Zernov - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 02, 10:34PM CST
USO: 19.62 (+0.44), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), BNO: 23.05 (+0.78), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russian Central Bank Roulette: Rubble The Ruble Or The Banking System?
Craig Pirrong - Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 9:04AM CST
On Friday the Central Bank of Russia surprised pretty much everyone by cutting its policy interest rate from 17 percent to 15 percent. Bloomberg lays responsibility at Putin's feet, and no doubt he had to approve. But the evidence the article cites...
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Will The Russian Ruble Collapse... Again?
Anthony Cataldo - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Feb 01, 12:25AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), SNE: 27.30 (+0.19), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), PG: 85.90 (-0.13), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russia GDP to contract 3% in 2015
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Jan 31, 4:01PM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russia central bank cuts key rate
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Jan 30, 5:23AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
EU extends Russian sanctions
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Jan 30, 2:31AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Russian Market Will Remain Under Pressure
Vladimir Zernov - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 2:07PM CST
RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
Too Quick To Exaggerate SWIFT Data
Marc Chandler - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 9:51AM CST
The media has pounced on a report from SWIFT, the international messaging platform for financial transactions, which showed a rise in the use of the Chinese yuan to record levels. According to SWIFT, the use of the yuan surpassed the Australian and...
FXA: 77.69 (+0.23), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), CYB: 25.18 (+0.03), FXB: 151.21 (+0.01), FXY: 81.87 (+0.09), FXC: 79.78 (+0.19), FXE: 112.16 (-0.15), UUP: 24.91 (-0.01)
Ruble rebounds following S&P downgrade
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 27, 3:07AM CST
RSXJ: 21.52 (+0.46), RUSL: 27.31 (+1.68), RBL: 17.44 (+0.30), RUSS: 11.59 (-0.81), RSX: 18.05 (+0.39), ERUS: 13.75 (+0.28)
