http://en.redtram.com/ News on "Finance & Investments"  in "East Europe & North Asia" Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:55:28 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 158993 | Fund Flows: Turning Positive for Russia http://en.redtram.com/go/222191443/top100/ 222191443 Best week since early June. The weekly fund flow report from EPFR Global shows improving flows into Russia funds and, although one snow flake doesn't make a winter, it adds to the build up of optimism that investors are looking Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191443/top100/ 158993 | Russian fincl markets to recover later than global mkts http://en.redtram.com/go/222191431/top100/ 222191431 Russian financial markets are expected to recover from the crisis later than the global markets, Yekaterina Trofimova, head of Standard & Poor's division for Russian bank ratings, said in an interview with PRIME-TASS. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191431/top100/ 158993 | Russia's economic decline over fairly soon, long recovery http://en.redtram.com/go/222191421/top100/ 222191421 The economic decline is expected to be over soon in Russia, but several years will be required to return to pre-crisis levels, World Bank (WB) Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Shigeo Katsu said in an interview with Prime-Tass. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:12 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191421/top100/ 158993 | Russia: Meet the Relatives - Sorting Cheap from Expensive Stocks http://en.redtram.com/go/222191404/top100/ 222191404 Revised RTS Fair Value level to 1,032 - consolidation at this level is justified before market pushes to new highs later in the year. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:09 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191404/top100/ 158993 | Russia-US Summit - Investment Angles http://en.redtram.com/go/222191392/top100/ 222191392 The Russia-US summit will mainly be about big-picture geopolitics, but there are also some angles that should offer both long-term and near-term investment opportunities to both strategic and portfolio investors. Most of these are in the areas of private equity Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:07 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191392/top100/ 158993 | Bad debt problem to intensify in Russia in Aug-Sep http://en.redtram.com/go/222191381/top100/ 222191381 The problem of bad debt will intensify in Russia's banking sector in August-September during a peak in debt redemptions, Pavel Teplukhin, managing director of investment banking group Troika Dialog, said in an interview with Prime-Tass. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:04 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191381/top100/ 158993 | World Bank prepared to lend to Russia if necessary http://en.redtram.com/go/222191365/top100/ 222191365 The World Bank is prepared to provide Russia with appropriate financing in 2010, Klaus Rohland, the World Bank's Country Director for Russia, said in an interview with Prime-Tass. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:01 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191365/top100/ 158993 | IFC has no major problems with its Russian portfolio so far http://en.redtram.com/go/222191352/top100/ 222191352 The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is part of the World Bank Group, does not have major problems with non-performing loans in Russia amid the global economic meltdown, IFC Executive Vice President and CEO Lars Thunell said in an interview Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191352/top100/ 158993 | Russia-EU Summit: A very long way to travel http://en.redtram.com/go/222191341/top100/ 222191341 Better tone expected. The latest two day Russia-EU summit opened today in the city of Khabarovsk, the administrative capital of the Far Eastern Federal District. Both sides will come to the summit with some legacy baggage but the tone should Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:51 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191341/top100/ 158993 | We will survive: But will we thrive? http://en.redtram.com/go/222191332/top100/ 222191332 Prime Minister's hopeful message. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today delivered a report to the lower house of parliament, the Duma, on the measures taken by government to address the economic crisis. There was very little new in his speech. His Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:44 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191332/top100/ 158993 | Russia's Magnezit to restructure 2.5 bln rbl bond http://en.redtram.com/go/222191321/top100/ 222191321 Russia's largest refractory materials producer Magnezit plans to immediately repay half of its second, 2.5 billion ruble bond issue as a part of a planned restructuring, the group's CEO Sergei Odegov said in an interview with Prime-Tass. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:41 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191321/top100/ 158993 | Russia's customs sees sharp fall in collection in 2009 http://en.redtram.com/go/222191312/top100/ 222191312 Russia's Federal Customs Service projects its collections for the federal budget to fall to 2.78 trillion rubles in 2009 from 4.695 trillion rubles in 2008, considering the unfavorable economic environment, Boris Shkurkin, director of the service's department for federal customs Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:38 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191312/top100/ 158993 | RUSAL confident in ability to ride out global turmoil http://en.redtram.com/go/222191304/top100/ 222191304 Russian aluminum giant United Company RUSAL is anticipating weak demand for aluminum to continue into 2010, but the company believes it is well positioned to weather the global financial turmoil, Sergei Belsky, RUSAL's director of sales, said in a recent Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:37 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191304/top100/ 158993 | INERVIEW: Russian insurer ROSNO completes large-scale restructuring Interview with Hannes Chopra, CEO of Russian insurance company ROSNO http://en.redtram.com/go/222191295/top100/ 222191295 Russian insurance company ROSNO completed the largest restructuring in the company's history in 2008, ROSNO CEO Hannes Chopra told Prime-Tass in a recent interview. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:35 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191295/top100/ 158993 | No bk liquidity issues, CBR to tighten unsecured lending http://en.redtram.com/go/222191285/top100/ 222191285 Russian banks do not have acute liquidity problems, the Central Bank of Russia's (CBR) First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said in an interview with Prime-Tass. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191285/top100/ 158993 | Russia's new business: LNG http://en.redtram.com/go/222191271/top100/ 222191271 Russia will ship its first LNG from Sakhalin tomorrow. That will mark the entry of Gazprom into a new business line and signal Russia's intention to be an important, if not dominant, player in the growing LNG business. Below is Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191271/top100/ 158993 | Govt might decide on bailing out banks within 2-6 mos http://en.redtram.com/go/222191260/top100/ 222191260 The Russian government may either decide within two months on providing subordinated loans to struggling banks or make an alternative decision within six months on investing in bank stocks, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in an Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:24 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191260/top100/ 158993 | Russia's dollar addiction http://en.redtram.com/go/222191253/top100/ 222191253 Russia's dollar fixation is a big part of the risk perception problem and one of the reasons why assets trade at a discount. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:20 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191253/top100/ 158993 | Ruble: Calling time on devaluation http://en.redtram.com/go/222191244/top100/ 222191244 The Central Bank has announced that it is ending its practice of "gradual devaluation" for the ruble. As a parting shot it has announced that it will move the weakest end of the benchmark basket to 41.0 from tomorrow morning. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:18 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191244/top100/ 158993 | Gas Wars: Who Won, Who Lost? http://en.redtram.com/go/222191235/top100/ 222191235 Two new gas deals have been signed by the representatives of Russia and Ukraine and, Tuesday morning, gas exports to Europe via the Ukraine pipeline resumed. The new contracts will run for ten years. Following one last year of discount Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:41:13 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222191235/top100/