Showing posts with label Russian reserves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian reserves. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2015

28/8/15: CBR and Ruble: Fiscal Balance in Oil's Shadow

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As I noted earlier this month, Russia has officially entered the recession. The key drivers for 3.4% contraction in 1H 2015 were the same ...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

18/6/15: Russian Central Bank Targets Rebuilding of Foreign Reserves

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Recently, speaking at a banking conference in St Petersburg, Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia outlined the CBR positi...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

15/4/15: Russian Foreign Exchange Reserves

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Few weeks ago, based on the three weeks data from the Central Bank, I noted an improvement in Russian Forex reserves, while warning that t...
Friday, March 20, 2015

20/3/15: Central Bank Interventions in Ruble Markets down to Zero in February

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Don't hear much of "Panic at the Central Bank of Russia" reports as of late in the Western media - the ones that whipped int...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

3/3/15: Those 'tanked' Russian Forex reserves

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So, according to some Western media, Russian forex reserves have tanked in February 2015. What happened, folks? At the end of January 20...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

1/1/2015: Russian Reserves Down USD10.4bn in the Week of December 26th

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CBR published data on Russia's foreign exchange reserves for last week (through December 26th), showing another drop in reserves to th...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

17/12/2014: Some Ruble-Heavy Reading: Contagion, Reserves & Fundamentals

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Some interesting set of articles on the topic I mentioned earlier on Irish radio and in the post here: http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/20...
Friday, November 14, 2014

14/11/2014: Russia Risks Up, but No Panic, yet

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Euromoney Country Risk published an interesting analysis of the country risk scores for Russia. Here are some of the highlights (link up o...
Monday, July 28, 2014

28/7/2014: Steady decline in Russian Reserves since Q1 2013

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Russia's firepower in financial terms is formidable at USD472 billion, albeit declining since the 'local' maximum at around Q4...