Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Conseguenze economiche dell'incompetenza di Putin

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-25/russia-raises-main-rate-as-ukraine-crisis-weighs-on-ruble.html
 
 
Russia Raises Main Rate as Ukraine Crisis Weighs on Ruble
 
By Anna Andrianova and Olga Tanas  Apr 25, 2014 11:36 AM GMT+0200
 
The central bank in Moscow increased its one-week auction rate, the benchmark introduced in September, to 7.5 percent from 7 percent today, according to a website statement. That came as a surprise after 22 out of 23 economists in a Bloomberg survey forecast the rates to remain unchanged. One economist forecast an increase to 8 percent.
 
The escalating crisis in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea last month led to the worst standoff against the U.S. and Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union leaving policy makers to struggle with an economy on the brink of recession with the inflation rate above the central bank's target for a 19th month as the ruble fell.
 
The ruble has lost 8.4 percent this year against the dollar, the second-worst performance among 24 emerging-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg after Argentina's peso.
 
Standard & Poor's cut today Russia's sovereign rating one step to BBB-, the lowest investment level, saying in a statement that the tense geopolitical situation between Russia and Ukraine could spur additional significant outflows and "undermine already weakening growth prospects."
 
Additional Sanctions
 
The U.S. and its allies have additional sanctions against Russia ready and "will follow through" if there is no progress in Ukraine in the coming days, U.S. President Barack Obama said in Tokyo yesterday after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that sanctions aren't having a "critical" impact on the country. He called on Ukraine to halt an offensive against pro-Russian separatists after troops entered the eastern city of Slovyansk, killing five rebels. Using the army against civilians would "have consequences for the people who make such decisions," Putin told reporters in St. Petersburg.
 
Consumer-price growth accelerated to 6.9 percent in March from year earlier after reaching 6.2 percent in February. Inflation may be 5 percent to 6 percent in 2014, central bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina said March 27, compared with the regulator's 5 percent target this year. It missed its target range of 5 percent to 6 percent in 2013.
 
Inflation Peak
 
Inflation may peak in May or June at 7.5 percent, Maxim Oreshkin, head of the Finance Ministry's strategic planning department, told reporters April 21. Speaking during an annual televised call-in show last week, Putin said he hoped the central bank could keep inflation at 6 percent to 6.5 percent.
 
Prices vaulted past issues in housing and utilities to become the biggest problem for Russians, according to a poll published April 14 by the state-run All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion.
 
Policy makers kept their key rate at 7 percent at their last meeting on March 14. The central bank made what it called a temporary increase from 5.5 percent the previous week after Putin secured lawmakers' approval to send troops into Ukraine.
 
Gross domestic product may expand less than 0.5 percent this year or not grow at all, according to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. GDP grew 1.3 percent in 2013, the slowest pace in four years. Capital outflows surged to $50.6 billion in the first quarter from $27.5 billion a year earlier.
 
"Capital outflows reduce the possibility for investment growth in the economy and create risks of an unbalanced budget," Siluanov said April 15.

 
Quanto sono le riserve della Banca Centrale Russa? Perche' altrimenti Putin sta facendo un bluff, altrimenti, con tempo pochi mesi prima del fallimento. Sta azzerando la crescita russa - che disprezzo per i suoi concittadini - per le sue idee psìcotiche di Eurasia, con tempo fino a Dicembre.
Le agenzie di rating danno la Russia ad un cranno dal trash..Eppoi? La base di Putin sono pensionati e clientes. Ma l'inflazione si sta mangiando i pensionati.
 
Percio' l'opposizione russa tra qualche mese non avra solo i brogli come protesta, ma anche la situazione materiale.
I russi, i nostri migliori alleati per distruggere la distopia dell'Eurasia.
 
Vade retro psìcotci, dei vostri commenti facciamo a meno, come del cottolengo venetista.