The Moscow stock market has taken a sharp dive following US President Donald Trump's statement that he is considering imposing tougher sanctions against Russia.
The Moscow Times reports that the Moscow Exchange Index has lost 1.51% in just a few hours of trading and market capitalisation has fallen by 100 billion roubles (about US$1.1 billion).
Shares in Gazprom, Russia’s largest oil and gas company, were hardest hit, falling by 3.5%. Sberbank and VTB shares have dropped by 1.5% and 2.4% respectively. The pressure intensified after reports that the EU is preparing to disconnect another 20 Russian banks from SWIFT.
Among the worst-affected are Sovcomflot (-2.6%), Severstal (-2%), Aeroflot and Magnit (-2.2%). Rosneft shares have fallen by 1.4%.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/26/7514116/
Posted by LogicX64
39 Comments
Did he become president there?
So now Cheetolini is Pump/Dumping the Russian stock market too?!
1.51% and is his fault?
Dumping everyone’s markets 😮💨
I would think that ‘the EU preparing to disconnect another 20 banks from SWIFT’ is probably more of the driver here that ‘Trump maybe but might not but could but who knows’ . But what do I know. This world and market is completely insane now.
He is buying the dip before next statement!
After 3 years of sanctions and more sanctions, can they get any tougher?
Now I need to figure where the bending of the knee occurs so I can also profit.
This is just a fraction of a pizza pie for him trillions means nothing to him.
Yesterday I lost my goddamn airpods, all because of Donald Trump.
Golden shower video to be released imminently
Pretty insane how he’s been using his words to manipulate the markets for 40 years and somehow that’s legal.
It’s Biden’s fault.
1.51%? He crashes the US market more than that on a regular basis.
Some people just have a talent for some things!
He won’t he will kneel.
He’s really good at destroying money. No wonder he’s in the government
1.5% wtf is this garbage.
The bull kicking around inside the house knocks over a bucket onto a fire that happened to be burning.
$1 Billion? What is this a selloff for ants?
Trump is not going to do jack to Putin . He’s all bark, no bite.
Who cares
Remember when he ended the war within 24 hours?
Amateur numbers, he wiped off nearly 1000 times more than that in the US market in a single day multiple times
Maybe he’s helping the oligarchs there buy cheap shares!
Comrade Trump is defecting?
A billion lost? Hold my Budweiser….
lol, Russian stock market is worth $78B. Meanwhile Tesla has lost $127B in march 11 2025
Won’t do shit he’s a Russian asset
Bravo! Impressive!
Yikes, that is quite interesting
Trump is well known for making some statements that sound a bit harsh towards Putin from time to time. That’s all he does though, he never acts on them. Do they twitch like this in Moscow every time he does that? Poor bastards. It must be the nerves.
“Comrades, release the golden shower tape!”
“Oh no, we waited too long, people will think it’s AI!”
He literally said he was NOT going to join Europe in pursuing further sanctions on Russia.
OP, are you a fucking idiot or a Trumper propagandist?
It’s all a grift, he’ll change his mind and make another billion for his corrupt empire,
Bet he shorted the market the day before.
I’m amazed a 1.5% drop in the Moscow index only equates to $1 billion USD
Angry bully gets angry, just so happens to be against another bully
A 1.51% swing is statistical noise. Daily swings below 5% aren’t worth reporting on.