Yes, the S&P 500 shed four and a half percent today. Yes, the Dow dropped three and a quarter percent. Yes, the bailout index dropped almost eleven and a half percent. But this feels like a walk in the park compared to Russia's trubs. Consider:
Russian stocks fell the most in three months, triggering trading halts in the two largest bourses, as the country cut its economic forecast and oil prices declined.OAO Surgutneftegaz, Russia's fourth-biggest oil producer, tumbled 15 percent. OAO Sberbank, the biggest lender, slumped 14 percent, while VTB Group, the second-biggest bank, dropped to a record low.
The 30-stock Micex Index lost 9.4 percent to 645.18 at the close in Moscow, the most since November. The RTS Index also dropped 9.4 percent, to 552.03. Both the Micex Stock Exchange and RTS halted trading for an hour today. The ruble weakened more than 3 percent versus the dollar.
It wasn't twelve months ago when Russia's Putin was flying Bears into U.S. airspace, killing dissident journalists with everything from midnight assassination squads to bombs to Polonium-210 and generally scaring everyone again after 20 years. Now he looks like a Madoff sibling.
Russian Stocks Tumble as Economic Outlook Worsens, Oil Declines [Bloomberg]
Related: Commodities Crash Decimates Russian Billionaires [The New York Post]
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:13PM
...another southpaw. What's the deal with that???
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:20PM
uh...rocket scientist @ #1
with spin casting that is right handed you shmuck
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:23PM
Nobel Prize Winner #2: His watch is on his right hand, thus the southpaw designation. Try to keep up.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:25PM
Who is that gorgeous hunk of blubber?
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:26PM
LOL @ Gasparino (4)
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:27PM
Have another vodka tubbo
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:29PM
Blubber is a great word. I wish people would use it more, it makes me chuckle and want to make fun of fat people.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:31PM
Say bye to Jon Winkelried....
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:35PM
@8- how do you figure?
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:37PM
@ 8 He got caught up in the big Gasparino Goldman Meeting Scandal of 2009
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:38PM
Maria looks terrrrible today.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:40PM
...today?
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:40PM
In Soviet Russia, blubber take KGB out of you.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:45PM
He is a righty:
Shooting a gun:
http://www.russianspy.org/putin_shooting-gun.jpg
Kissing a pregnant lil boy's stomach:
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/07/putin_wideweb__470x351,0.jpg
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:46PM
He is a righty:
Shooting a gun:
http://www.russianspy.org/putin_shooting-gun.jpg
Kissing a pregnant lil boy's stomach:
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/07/putin_wideweb__470x351,0.jpg
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:48PM
Clearly everything is ass-backward in the Motherland so rightys wear watches on right hands.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:49PM
From Pravda,
..."Mr. Putin seems to be a right-handed person. However, he wears his watch on the right wrist. In addition, Putin often uses his left hand to take notes out of his right pocket."
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 4:56PM
@2 is correct.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 5:01PM
He can do complex tasks wih either right or left hand? So he's amphibious?
~Former Aquila gas marketer
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 5:10PM
Bunch of outlaws in Russia. Only idiots would invest in Russia.
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 5:11PM
@20
and the US is what?
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 5:41PM
#2
moron
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 6:10PM
That's not a fishing pole. It's a mechanical penis. He's just cranking it up.
Posted by trojan , Feb 17, 2009 6:39PM
trubs? really ep? you sound like every uws girl i know who went to trinity
Posted by guest , Feb 17, 2009 10:42PM
That's the off season look for Putin. First of March he'll be back on Trenbolone 75 migs EOD with some Test Cyp 250 migs weekly. Watch out bitches he'll be one sexy mofo when the summer rolls around.
Don't be putin your sputnik all over my face bitches.
SPODE
Posted by guest , Feb 18, 2009 3:10AM
I'm a righty that wears a watch on my right wrist and spin casts with my right hand; what's polonium?
Posted by Cincinnatus C , Feb 18, 2009 9:29AM
that's not blubber. Putin's built like a freight train. he could snap obama's neck like a twig in a heartbeat...
i can just imagine some sniveling eastern bloc puppet president in a meeting with him...they must literally fear for their lives...
Posted by Cincinnatus C , Feb 18, 2009 9:29AM
that's not blubber. Putin's built like a freight train. he could snap obama's neck like a twig in a heartbeat...
i can just imagine some sniveling eastern bloc puppet president in a meeting with him...they must literally fear for their lives...
Posted by guest , Feb 18, 2009 9:30AM
btw he is 56
Posted by Cincinnatus C , Feb 18, 2009 9:32AM
#10 and #14...thanks for the laughs..those were good...