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Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... inflation - down to 2.2% in the year to January from 2.5% in the previous month and below the 4% target - offers the Bank of Russia scope to cut interest rates further from the current 7.5% to boost economic growth some more. There's no doubt Putin's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... September, with the degree of business sentiment unchanged from August's four-month high". Russia inflation The Central Bank of Russia cited the continued slowdown in inflation and receding inflation expectations when it cut interest rates by 50 bps ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... back in May 2015, cheap oil and Western sanctions will continue to batter Moscow's economic fortunes. Worse, the Bank of Russia has no room to provide monetary policy accommodation because it deems that "inflation risks remain high". The Russian central ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... currently fetching R54.46. The ruble's renewed weakness, should it persist, would limit (if not prevent) the Central Bank of Russia's (CBR) scope to provide additional monetary policy accommodation to counteract the country's deepening recession. Recall ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... a tightening bias to "on hold for some time" and perhaps a possible rate cut was not. On the 30th, the Central Bank of Russia unexpectedly cut its repo rate by 200 basis points to 15% -- just a bit over a month after it raised it 6.5 percentage points ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... for China. On 5 November - a day after the Melbourne Cup and one day before the ECB policy decision - the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced the end of its currency intervention policy. But not quite, it'll still conduct smoothing out operations ...
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