Public offerings have been playing an increasingly important role in fundraising for an accelerated development of businesses in the new economy. The IPO market has triggered an intense competition between the USA and China. Russia’s stock market has stayed away from these processes. The...

The U.S. stock market entered a major correction on 2 February 2018, impacting most of the markets worldwide. Stock indices plunged as volatility increased. The correction was spurred mainly by the U.S. stock market overvaluation as well as concerns about inflation spike in the United States....

The expansion of the US government economic stimulus package has raised concerns about accelerating inflation and rising asset values not only inside the country, but throughout the world. In the medium term, the Russian economy and financial market may benefit from climbing US budget spending....

Over the past two years, millions of new private investors have entered the stockmarkets in Russia and the USA, but their number in the Russian Federation issignificantly overestimated. In both markets, private investors face the risks of gettinginvolved in speculative transactions. The Russian...