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Russian investors bank on bonds linked to consumer prices

Published Wed, Dec 9, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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    Moscow

    RUSSIAN investors caught between an oil rout and a ban on Turkish food are finding a way out in one corner of the bond market: securities that bet that rampant inflation won't go away.

    Notes indexed to consumer prices returned 1.2 per cent in the past month compared with declines of 0.4 per cent on nominal bonds and 7 per cent for the Russian currency. Credit Suisse Group AG advises that clients buy the so-called linkers over plain-vanilla debt.

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