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Russian Bear Rattles Stock Markets, but Plunge Protection Team …

Russian Bear Rattles Stock Markets, but Plunge Protection Team Rides to the RescueStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 14, 2014 – 11:10 PM GMTBy: Gary_DorschInvesting is an inherently risky business with lots of uncertainties. At any given moment, the bullets can fly from any direction, and at a bare minimum, the investor hopes to emerge unscathed from the battlefield. But of […]

Russian Stock Market Jumps On News Of Khodorkovsky Pardon By …

Russia’s MICEX jumped almost 1% this morning on news that Vladimir Putin had asked for clemency in the jailing of vocal Kremlin critic, Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky has been jailed since 2003 on a variety of tax-evasion, fraid and embezzlement charges though being among the nation’s wealthiest men, the jailing was seen as politically-motivated (because of his political ambitions). […]