Moscow Stock Exchange Plunge: Analysts Bearish on Market
“The Moscow Stock Exchange Plummets: What Are Analysts Saying?”
Summary
The MOEX index fell below 2,025 points, dropping more than 4% to a three‑year low, marking its sharpest decline since 2022. Analysts link the plunge to sanctions, war‑related disruptions and high borrowing costs, and they warn that further weakness is likely.
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- U.S. Stock Market Headlines | Breaking Stock Market News | Reuters
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- Индекс Мосбиржи опустился ниже 2025 пунктов впервые с октября 2022 года - Ведомости
Российский фондовый рынок продемонстрировал резкое снижение в ходе основной торговой сессии.
- Strait of Hormuz-style crisis looms for Russia as Ukraine forces shutdown of a key waterway | CNN
Prices of wheat futures, a key indicator of traders’ expectations, have jumped in recent days, partly because of the Azov Sea crisis. Russia claims it can bypass the Sea of Azov and reroute all of its grain exports via other terminals in the Black Sea, but Sizov said this would not be possible during the peak season when Russia’s total grain exports far exceed the capacity of those ports.
- Russia’s Raddled Stock Market - CEPA
Sanctions have hurt the market both directly and structurally. Direct sanctions on Russia’s exchange infrastructure forced a halt to trading in major foreign currencies.
- Russia’s War Against Its Own Future - The National Interest
The consequences are becoming visible. Russia’s National Wealth Fund equaled 6.5 percent of GDP before the war. By April 2026, its liquid assets had fallen to less than one-third of that level, sharply reducing Moscow’s principal fiscal room for maneuver.
- Russian Stocks Plunge to Lowest Level Since March 2023 - The Moscow Times
Russian stocks tumbled over 4% on Monday to hit their lowest level in more than three years, extending a 15-week decline after the Central Bank’s modest interest rate cut last week signaled that high borrowing costs will likely persist longer ...
- Russia's Stock Market Is the Best Measure of Russia's Problems. The Signs Aren't Good. - The Moscow Times
The most common joke I saw in ... 16 weeks. But last Friday brought a genuine collapse. After all, the MOEX index had never lost 5% in a single day before....
- Russia stocks lower at close of trade; MOEX Russia Index down 4.26% By Investing.com
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia Index lost 4.26% to hit a new 3-years low.
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