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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: Ruble futures market info?
- Message-ID: <BxurAz.Dtn@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <92321.142836YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1e9mseINNegu@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:52:11 GMT
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- devine@olympus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (bob devine) writes:
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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
-
- There is an article in last week's Barron's about currency trading.
- Everyone WISHES you could trade in rubles -- and make
- a fortune by selling it down the tubes.
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
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