The stock market in Russia, which had reached its highest levels last spring after the start of negotiations with the US about Ukraine, is experiencing a rapid collapse..
La tranzacțiile de marți, indicele Bursei din Moscova (MOEX) a înregistrat scădere pentru a 11-a zi consecutivă și a coborât la cel mai mic nivel din aproape două luni — 2926,6 puncte. “In a single day, the index lost 1.3%, and in the last two weeks – 10%, which equates to nearly 500 billion rubles lost from the total capitalization.
“The current decline of the MOEX index is the longest since the 1998 crisis,” notes analyst Freedom Finance Global , Vladimir Cernov.
Investors were hoping for a de-escalation and easing of sanctions, but these expectations proved too optimistic,” notes the expert. “So far, everything has been limited to Donald Trump’s threats to impose a 25% tariff on all Russian oil and 500 % tariffs on imports to countries that buy it, if he considers that Moscow is sabotaging the negotiation process.
“The market was hit by waves of sales,” notes Alexei Antonov, an analyst at Alor Broker . In the last two weeks, Sberbank’s shares fell by 7%, VTB – by 16%, Rosneft – by 13%, Nornickel – by 12%, Novatek – by 9%, and Aeroflot – by 14%. The anti-leader among the top stocks (“blue chips”) was Gazprom, whose shares dropped by 20%, which wiped out nearly 800 billion rubles from the company’s capitalization.
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