Rouble better bet than dollar: Merrill Lynch
Published: 07 February, 2008, 07:43
Leading global investment bank Merrill Lynch is advising investors to buy the Russian rouble rather than the U.S. dollar.
In a research report published this week, Merrill Lynch predicts the rouble will gain more than 6 per cent against the dollar by the end of March.
The bank's forecast assumes that Russia's Central Bank will start letting the rouble appreciate strongly, in a move to combat inflation.
Russia's inflation rate was 11.9 per cent in 2007, and this year it reached nearly 2.5 per cent in January alone.
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