Russia’s RTS-Index Futures Advance After Oil, Commodities Gain

Bloomberg reports Russia’s RTS stock-index futures gained, signaling stocks may rebound from a six-month low in Moscow, as oil and metals rose.

The market news is quoted as saying,

“The strength in commodities still forms the basis of any inflows” into Russian assets, Yan Gloukhovski, a trader at Alforma Capital Markets, the New York branch of Russia’s Alfa Bank, said in a telephone interview. “As easy money is being scaled back, the outlook for commodities is no longer certain.”

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