Head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Thomas Mirov believes that the deep recession in 2009 are expected in four countries - Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, where the GDP on the basis of the current year may be reduced to 4-15 %.
The scope and depth of the crisis [...]

Return to the economic growth in Russia will happen in 2010, said today at a meeting on the situation and measures to promote the steel industry in Magnitogorsk, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
According to him, the Government intends to achieve in the next year of stabilization and even though a small but growing [...]

Dynamics
Trades on the market of black gold on Thursday 23 July, took place under banners bulls on the background of favorable data on the real estate market and a successful quarterly reporting of large companies (EBay Inc. and Ford Motor Co.), which reinforced expectations for an early economic recovery.
At [...]

IC FINAM assigned shares of JSC Akron recommendation to sell, estimating its cost at $ 18.3 at the end of 2010, which corresponds to the potential reduction in the level of 22%. Analysts note that the demand for products Akron fundamentally strong and will grow rapidly. However, the risks associated with relatively high debt [...]

Central Bank of Belarus and Ukraine agreed to hold a currency swap transaction, according to a press release of information the National Bank of Belarus (NBB), on the basis of the July 22 meeting in Minsk the advisory board with representatives of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).
The parties agreed to continue [...]

At the moment RTS index holds above 1000 points mark. Shares of Gazprom kept at around 165 rubles per share, in the negative zone. Sberbank neutral trading.
In recent times, namely the paper of Gazprom and Sberbank have become an indicator trends of Russian stock market since they accountfor turnover in the main section [...]

World stock markets
Almost all released yesterday by the corporate accounting and statistics United States had better expectations of experts, which allowed U.S. stock indexes to show strong growth over all the trading session without a single attempt correction.
The number of primary applications for U.S. citizens on unemployment benefits last [...]

Yesterday, market participants have received long-awaited batch of optimism after the publication of encouraging economic statistics on the most problematic sectors of the U.S. economy - the labor market and real estate. Number of applications for unemployment benefits continued to decline from the March peak, and yesterday the value of this index fall below 52-week [...]

Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko believes that in the winter of difficulties in the issue of transit of gas to Europe via Ukraine should become smaller. This he said in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt.
In my opinion, the following winter, the difficulties should be less. Because unlike previous treaties, which always [...]

Oil quotes to support the market
In Thursday trading on the Russian sites have opened growth of quotations on a background of positive dynamics in the energy market. This enabled the bulls put the market above 1000 points mark on the MICEX index, In the future, after a brief consolidation, the market [...]