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Russia announces anti crisis plan after junk credit rating


MOSCOW – After a top ratings agency cut Russia’s credit grade to “junk” status, the government in Moscow on Tuesday announced a plan that will see the economy return to a budget surplus in 2017.
Standard & Poor’s downgraded Russia’s rating to BB-plus late on Monday, a non-investment grade, for the first time since 2004, citing a slide in the ruble and weakening revenue from oil exports. The agency said Russia’s financial system is weakening, limiting room for manoeuvr for Russia’s Central Bank.
Russia’s economy has been hit hard by the double impact of weaker energy prices and Western sanctions over its …read more

Source: Macleans

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