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- From: devine@olympus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (bob devine)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Ruble futures market info?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 02:54:06 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Yaakov Kayman) writes:
- : Now that the Soviet Union's gone and the Russian economy is opening up
- : (it hopes) to foreign investors, where might one get some information
- : about a rubles futures market?
-
- I dont't think that any investor should plan on a stable Russian market.
- The annual ruble-based inflation rate is estimated at > 2000%. So that
- leaves 3 possibilities:
- 1. any trading profits you make are instantly devalued
- 2. the markets collapse
- 3. the ruble is declared as worthless
-
- Currency trading is worth playing only if you are affiliated with
- a deep-pockets source of money. There is currently no stable market
- that you can use to trade. Bartering is about all that is semi-safe.
-
- Bob Devine
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