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The Truman Show Stock Market – How Things Look And What They …

The Truman Show Stock Market – How Things Look And What They AreStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 07, 2014 – 03:49 AM GMTBy: Raul_I_MeijerWe hugely underestimate what it means not to have a functioning financial system and economy. It even feels sort of fine for a while, both to the richer part of our population who get richer, and to […]

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). […]