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https://www.fontanka.ru/2022/03/05/70490492/ For those who cannot read Russian - the biggest paper manufacturer in Russia has to stop production for lack of needed chemicals. Since this is a Russian source, they carefully don't mention the sanctions :) but they do say the chemicals/raw...

I don't think so. First of all, 10-15% Russian share of the oil market will not completely disappear, it will be redirected, though definitely reduced, which means other oil produced by others will be redirected as well. And commodity prices may rise, but again, the share is not that great...

In MT at some point in the past I put in a "transparency" option in every window. Just for the hell of it. AFAIK, no one uses this feature.

Russia exports $400B annually. That's to the whole world. $188B to EU. $5.8B to US. Compare that to the size of EU economy. (GDP: $15T). Russian economy: GDP: $1.48T. That's before the sanctions. No guesses what it will be in 2022. And BP just wrote off $25B (that's billion) in order to walk...

Has a significant portion of it (last I heard, high $100Bs) in gold. Physical gold. He is going to have serious problems converting that to hard currency.

Visa and Mastercard announced they are stopping operating in Russia. American Express announced the same a couple of days ago. This means that Russian banks' cards will not work abroad, and foreign cards won't work in Russia. Russian-issued cards will still work inside Russia.

For those who speak Russian - intercepted call from Russian soldier home.

IBM and Adobe announced they stopped all sales and support in Russia.

BBC and CBC also pulled out their journalists out of Russia. Russian factories start closing due to sanctions. Renault-Nissan built plant just closed because of lack of part. So did the Avtotor factory that produced BMWs. Yandex warned its workers that they may be going bankrupt.

Singapore sanctions Russia in an unprecedented move. Sanctions are on exports and on Russian banks.

In addition to Bloomberg withdrawing its journalists from Russia in response to the law that makes any truthful reporting about the war punishable by up to 15 years in prison, CNN, ABC and NBC decided to pull their journalists as well. Russian international airline Aeroflot has been removed...

BTW one company that has not stopped its services in Russia yet - McDonalds. It needs to be pressured into quitting Russia. McD's entrance into Russian market was a huge symbolic thing and its exit will be as well.

Wonder if their villas will turn off their AIS as well.

The head of Aeroflot quit his job and left Russia. After Russia passed the law that criminalizes (15 years in prison!) independent reporting, Bloomberg is withdrawing all its journalists from the country. Two more oligarch's yachts have been confiscated in Italy. A Duma delegate's villa in...

I feel that Russia has to be isolated from the world. At all costs. Whatever craters their economy is good. This is not politics. This is way beyond politics. Rabid dogs have to be isolated. They have an offramp. If they topple Putin, blame it all on him, withdraw troops immediately, apologize...

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/coinbase-to-comply-with-sanctions-on-russia/ Binance already didn't allow US users. It's no big deal if it doesn't allow Russian users now.

A dog with fleas, you just deal with carefully. A dog that bites, you deal with more carefully. But you suspect the dog became rabid, it's a gamechanger.

COIN moves with BTC, it seems. BTC dropped quite a bit since yesterday. Why it moves with BTC, exactly, I dunno. COIN is a money making machine - huge commissions and the BTC volatility only drives the trading. On edit: Ah I see. This kind of stuff...

CISCO and Microsoft has stopped sales and support of their products in Russia. If Russian customers do not try to bypass the checks, most Cisco routers' licenses will be suspended. If they bypass the checks, the routers will function for another 30 to 90 days, then will stop.

"JPMorgan said it expected Russia's economy to contract 35% in the second quarter and 7% in 2022 with the economy suffering an economic output decline comparable to the 1998 crisis." I am not sure how "35% in second quarter" can translate into "7% in 2022". Maybe JPM thinks that the sanctions...