RTS fell to a record 1131 points today by 5 pm Moscow time. The exchange has been closed for an hour to prevent panic. Sberbank lost 20%, VTB – 30%, GazProm – 15%.The world crises affected all exchanges around the globe. We will monitor the situation and advise our customers what to expect…

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Russia's RTS stock exchange suspended trading for an hour Tuesday, because the market fell more than 8%. Trading was suspended at 5:20 p.m. Moscow time, the RTS exchange said. The RTS stock index was down 11.5% as of 5:53 p.m. Moscow time, according to the RTS website. Moscow's other stock exchange, [...]

... focused concerns about Russia's commodity-driven economy. Since May, the RTS has fallen by more than 55 per cent. First Deputy Prime Minister ... then resumed their decline. The ruble-denominated MICEX fell by more than 10 per cent at one point, before climbing back ... 12:10 p.m. (0810 GMT). The RTS fell 6.4 per cent before the suspension. Shares in Sberbank and VTB fell on MICEX by 9.6 per cent and 15.7 ...

... the market and to reassure rattled investors. Trading was halted on both the RTS and the Micex on the orders of a Federal Service for the Financial Markets (FSFM) after the RTS fell 6.39 percent in the first two hours, exchange officials said. ... suspended trading after a fall of 3.09 percent, a spokeswoman said. The RTS has now lost 57 percent since hitting an all-time high in May, ...

... halted trading on the exchange an hour early; the MOSCOW Interbank Currency Exchange fell 17 percent, and the dollar-denominated Russian Trading System (RTS) fell 12 percent.The carnage built upon ongoing losses in the Russian economy that have now seen the RTS fall by nearly 60 percent since its mid-May highs. The Russian ruble has recently become the ...