Fears of Russia’s possible economic isolation amid the political crisis in Ukraine have been causing investors to pull out their funds from the domestic stock exchange market, while international markets have been shaky as well.By midday on Friday the ruble-denominated MICEX fell 5 percent and the dollar-denominated RTS was down 5.5 percent, a low since August 2009. Both, however, later […]
Rising political tension between Russia and the West over Crimea dragged the benchmarks down to their worst fall in over five weeks. Lingering concerns about a possible slowdown in China also impacted the indices. The S&P 500 fell below a technical level and the year-to-date figure dropped to the red zone. The Dow suffered its fourth straight decline. Encouraging economic […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS. To learn more click hereWorries about the standoff between Ukraine and Russia continued to drive April Comex Gold futures higher overnight. The market briefly crossed the October 2013 top at $1361.10 before meeting selling pressure. The next move through this level is going to have to stick or it […]
Benchmarks ended Friday’s trading session on a mixed note. The S&P 500 and Dow gained modestly on the back of better-than-expected nonfarm payroll data. These marginal gains were strong enough for the S&P 500 to hit another record high for the second consecutive day. Investors were also kept on the edge by recent developments in the Crimea region; leading to […]
The Deflationary Effects of the Crashing Stock Market Kress CycleStock-Markets / Cycles AnalysisMar 06, 2014 – 06:44 PM GMTBy: Clif_Droke
Stocks came under selling pressure on Monday in the wake of renewed concerns over geopolitical instability in Eastern Europe. An escalation of tension between Russia and the Ukraine led to a plunge in Russia’s stock […]
Heaven help me, I’m going to invest in Russia.I’m not going to overthink it. I’m not going to let people talk me out of it. I am going to throw some of my money into the Russian stock market—and then forget about it for a few year.The riskier the stocks, the better. The investment of choice looks like the MarketVectors […]
Russia Stock Market Excuse To Sell…..Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Mar 04, 2014 – 10:20 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman
Mr. Putin has taken some aggressive action moving into the Ukraine. It seems highly unlikely he’ll do too much since he’s getting tremendous political global pressure. But the very fact that he’s taken action is a built in excuse for the […]
Russia’s financial system punished Vladimir Putin far more swiftly than western diplomacy on Monday, as the Moscow stock market suffered one of its biggest one-day falls in recent years and the rouble tumbled sharply in a first nervous reaction to the Kremlin’s gambit in Crimea.Some £34bn was wiped off the value of companies on the Moscow stock exchange on Monday […]
Just when you thought it was safe to put away the Dramamine, the stock market has once again started to gyrate in a big way. Volatility is back and investors better get used to it.Recent events like the emerging market sell-off, lower economic forecasts and Russia’s “invasion” of the Ukraine have once again caused the broad stock market to fall […]
Black Monday: Panicked Russian markets crash 10 percent over UkraineBy Agence France-PresseMonday, March 3, 2014 8:41 ESTTopics: President Vladimir Putin ♦ ukraineMoscow (AFP) – Russian stock markets Monday crashed almost 10 percent and the ruble plunged to historic lows in value against the dollar and euro, as alarm grew over the potentially disastrous economic consequences of military intervention in Ukraine.Russia’s […]
