Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natalia Burkova Author-Name-First:Natalia Author-Name-Last: Burkova Author-Name: Elizaveta Khudko Author-Name-First:Elizaveta Author-Name-Last: Khudko Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Financial Markets Abstract: The "Big Twenty" fears of a slowdown in the global economy, downgrading of France credit rating and volatility of oil prices have led to deterioration in the Russian financial markets in November 2012. Herewith, the average daily market turnover of governmental securities has decreased most significantly (by 40%). Lower reduction rates were noted in the stock market average daily volume (by 7%) and the futures market of the Russian Federation (by 9%). For the domestic market of corporate bonds November was a period of stabilization, despite the difficult external economic situation. The volume and market index has also moderately increased. The situation has improved in the issuers’ performance of their obligations, no real defaults were declared in November. Classification-JEL: G1, G3, G15 Keywords: Financial Markets Year: 2012 Issue: 12 Month: November Pages: 16-23 Journal:Russian Economic Developments File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/34Khudko.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:34