In spite of the existing economic pressure from Washington and the threat of a new round of sanctions being introduced, Moscow’s equity market has managed to remain a good destination for investments.
Bloomberg ranked Russia as the country with the best global equity market performance on a total-return basis in dollar terms, with the ruble being ranked as the second-best currency worldwide after the Ukrainian hryvna. According to the outlet, the stability of global oil prices also allowed Russia’s Central Bank to cut interest rates five times in 2019, thereby potentially endowing businesses with cheaper credit.
Russian Central Bank Headquarters
Global markets overall showed “surprising” market resilience, Bloomberg analysts noted, despite escalations in the China-US economic confrontation and mounting uncertainty over Brexit. But Russia was not the only country that stood out in terms of total returns on stocks and bonds, with Greece also being among the best equity market performers, mainly due to the possibility of borrowing at negative interest rates from the European Central Bank during October.
In the meantime, Moscow, which has been under US economic pressure since 2013, has recently been facing the introduction of a new round of sanctions against Russia’s banks, energy sector, and cyber industry following the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s approval of the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act (DASKA), which will now advance to a full Senate vote.
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