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OAO Gazprom led a rally in Russian stocks traded in the U.S., and RTS Index equity futures gained, after President Vladimir Putin pledged to cut taxes and lure investment back to the world’s biggest energy exporter.
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Russian equities rallied to a 2 1/2- month high as the nation’s biggest natural-gas producers OAO Gazprom and OAO Novatek climbed.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin threw his support behind efforts by allied lawmakers to repatriate as much as $1 trillion in capital held by companies and high ranking officials abroad.
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Russia, the largest emerging economy to raise rates in 2012, took a step toward the first round of monetary easing in a year after the economy slowed and inflation stabilized.
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Russia, the biggest emerging economy to raise interest rates in 2012, will probably leave borrowing costs unchanged and begin laying the groundwork for the first round of monetary easing in a year.
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Russian inflation probably quickened in November, even as the economy lost steam, because of faster growth in the cost of non-food goods.
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Russia’s central bank predicts the inflation rate may slide below 6 percent over the next year after policy makers conceded that the pace of price growth breached their target of 5 percent to 6 percent in 2012.
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Russia, the largest emerging economy to raise interest rates this year, will probably refrain from increasing borrowing costs today after inflation unexpectedly slowed in October for the first time in six months.
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The ruble closed at its strongest level against the central bank’s dollar-euro basket for two months after Chairman Sergei Ignatiev said the regulator isn’t “afraid” of a stronger currency and will use interest rates to curb inflation.
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Russia’s central bank will discuss offering funds to lenders for longer than one year, a step policy makers have resisted even as banks complained about a shortage of long-term liquidity.
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