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INDIA’S Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, has signed a one-year deal with Russia’s Rosneft to buy at least three million barrels of oil a month in roubles, four so...

THE Russian rouble weakened as trading opened on Monday (Oct 31) in the first session since Moscow said it would suspend participation in the landmark Black Sea grain deal over the weekend.

GLOBAL currency markets steadied on Monday (Aug 14) after the yen hit its lowest level since November, leaving traders on the lookout for Japanese government intervention to shore up the currency.

THE US dollar rose to a seven-month high against the yen on Tuesday (Jun 27) before paring its gains, with investors on the look-out for possible intervention by Japan to boost the ailing currency.

THE yen rose on Monday (Jun 26), though it remained not far from a more than seven-month low, after an official said Japan was not ruling out any options in responding appropriately to excessive curre...

The rouble weakened as much as 3 per cent against the dollar on Monday (Jun 26), the most this year, after a mutiny by mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose brief uprising represents the bigges...

[LONDON] Russia edged closer to a potential default on its international debt on Wednesday (Apr 6) as it paid dollar bondholders in roubles and said it would continue to do so as long as its foreign e...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (Mar 31) that he had signed a decree saying foreign buyers must pay in roubles for Russian gas from Apr 1, and contracts would be halted if these paym...

THE Russian rouble strengthened back past 84 to the US dollar on Thursday (Mar 31), and stocks jumped higher as some curbs on short selling were lifted, with the market focused on what Moscow's demand...