Details coming out from the Russian PM’s office after meetings with major exporters, central bank and government officials.

  • Says measures are needed to prevent jump in ruble rate
  • Main task is stable FX, revenues and sales

Meanwhile a raft of Russian data has been released and inflation has popped to 9.4% vs 8.9% y/y (That’s for the week to 15 Dec). Retail sales rose in November 0.3% vs -0.6% exp m/m & 1.8% vs 1.1% exp y/y.

Yesterday I had an article from the FT showing that Russians are piling into the retail sector to get ahead of price rises due to the fall of the currency.