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Russian market soars after bail-out
By Catherine Belton and Charles Clover in Moscow
Published: September 19 2008 11:26 | Last updated: September 19 2008 19:48
Tensions between conservative anti-western forces and their western-oriented, relatively liberal opponents in the Kremlin burst into the open on Friday as the Russian stock market soared nearly 30 per cent in response to a government rescue plan.
As trading resumed after a two-day closure to halt panic selling, the rouble-denominated MICEX Index surged 28.7 per cent and the dollar-denominated RTS 22.4 per cent, its biggest one-day rise, after the government pledge to boost liquidity by more than $100bn (€70bn, £55bn).
Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s finance minister, defended the support plan for the stock market as preventing the crash spreading to the rest of the economy. The market fall “created problems on the balances of enterprises, in collateral, loans and led to margin calls. It could have grown into a very big system of non-payments,” he said.
But Mr Kudrin appeared to be coming under increasing political pressure as infighting between rival factions in Russia’s government started to leak out into the public on Friday
The war in Georgia and the ensuing collapse of Russia’s financial markets has put conservative anti-western forces on a collision course with a clique of western-oriented, relatively liberal opponents. President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, prime minister, both said Russia would not change its course towards integration with the world economy.
But a flurry of competing public denunciations and press leaks from opposite sides of the political spectrum indicate a behind-the-scenes struggle over Russia’s future course and its relationship with the west.
Just Russia, the second largest pro-Kremlin political party after United Russia, which is headed by Mr Putin, called for the resignation of the relatively liberal Mr Kudrin, who has been the subject of critical headlines.
“We think that the resignation of the leadership of the finance ministry and fundamental change in the ministry’s policies would be good news for the market,” said Oksana Dmitrieva, spokesperson for the political party, which is headed by Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of Russia’s parliament.
Sergei Markov, a political scientist and member of parliament, said Mr Kudrin had been under fire in the past and survived because of his close relationship with Mr Putin. But this time “Kudrin is in real political trouble.” Mr Kudrin, a fiscal hawk, won a postponement until 2009 for a decision on VAT cuts that were being pushed by a pro-growth camp. But he appeared to be fighting a battle over greater tax cuts for the oil industry with Arkady Dvorkovich, the Kremlin’s top economic adviser, announcing further cuts for the sector to be implemented in 2010.
Standard and Poor’s said it was revising Russia’s outlook to stable from positive in spite of the apparent initial success of the government support package.
“The outlook revision is based on growing uncertainty regarding Russia’s economic policy response as the liquidity crisis in its financial markets has deepened,” it said. Bankers warned that volatility could still lie ahead as the global credit crisis was yet to unwind, while the systemic risks in Russia’s financial markets that helped drive markets down this week to wipe nearly $800bn off stocks since May still remained.
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