Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nikita Andrievskiy Author-Name-First: Nikita Author-Name-Last: Andrievskiy Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 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 new year’s beginning was marked by a generally positive behavior of the stock market. The quotation changes displayed by major Blue Chips over January were multi-vectored. At the same time, it should be noted that the observed growth in prices was sustained by Russian investors, while foreign market participants continued to withdraw their resources from the Russian market. January also saw a rather favorable situation on Russia’s domestic corporate bond market. The activity of the market’s biggest bond emitters in registering their new issues hit its several-year high, while at the same time many big companies gave up their plans to place their previously registered bond loans, and so these issues were annulled. Classification-JEL: G1, G3, G15 Keywords: Financial Markets Year: 2013 Issue: 2 Month: February Pages: 16-22 Journal:Russian Economic Developments File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/69Khudko.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:69