at the point where there has to be something much more radical we will need to see the banking system in europe for example have provided provide it with some substantial like trillion euro or backstop for example because that's the big threat to all of this is that if you do get a default in leave these countries that you start to run and we're going to let you fold in a second even when we do you think it's going this year a crisis actually that we would close i think it's it's a problem that will get put that will protect for a for a number of years probably and it will take a lot of time to solve itself i think the key issue in europe is that you have the peripheral countries that are noncompetitive at toll and therefore it's very difficult for them in a fixed exchange rate to recover just competitiveness and that's the core of the problem and i told me if i can go to you where do you think we're always going to go because it seems to be consensus here it least in the studio that if it's going to be fixed it's going to take a hell of a long time and a lot of money. well i can only agree that in the short term there's not going to be. some radical fix which will solve all the issues however i think.

you know there is enough we'll to avoid. you know meltdown and. i think i strongly strongly believe that. there's not going to be default. in eurozone even in the peripheral countries because otherwise it's going to be really contagious and it will not be stopped you know from spreading from greece portugal ireland to wards spain italy and. later to germany because these guys will now will not have anybody to buy. their exports so it should be stopped at every for all of europe otherwise it's going to be really really ugly ok on that if i can go to you and we just heard that there's political will i think there's just more fear than anything else that's why they have to fix it before we talk about how it affects russia what do you where do you think the euro is going to go

. the problem here is on his face in. is quite fundamental and of course it cannot be solved in any near term future so that's why. european politicians are trying to postpone do the final solution of the problem for as long as possible. so we will see some someone talk measures so they can pretty soon bot. of course i want to expect that the fundamental problem of. one of the policy and congress pacific fiscal policy will be solved any time soon ok chris let's go back to the studio here let's go to the u.s. double dip in the future before we go to u.s. could i just add one last point on the eurozone i think that the political angle is very important here because it seems to me that you know while as you quite rightly say it's more more fear of a meltdown rather than political will i think the political aspect is important we

are seeing these major political differences in other words the voting public in countries like germany that are very solid and they're increasingly getting fed up what you know you pay for exactly and i think that's the issue so i think i wouldn't automatically dismiss therefore some form of a default i think that the german seemed to be gunning far as you know to share the pain you know rather than have the german taxpayer pick it all up for example and i think it seems to me from listening to chancellor merkel is that she's in favor of some sort of a controls default if there is selected yeah faltering that is if this seems to be what they're pushing for extremely dangerous territory of course once you go down that road you don't know where it's going to go but it seems to me at least from the political side the solvent countries don't want to be picking up the tab all the time they want to share this and i think that's at the core of this issue right now that the euro what is going to be all about what about of us us well i guess we all assume that the that the u.s. will strike some sort of a temporary deal to prevent the default in august. so that's what the market

is assuming and i guess that the noises coming from us suggest that is the case but again we're looking at a stopgap measure we're looking at some sort of a temporary solution i think you know this whole issue of debt and deficits and trying to balance growth with stimulus is likely to be the backdrop in the u.s. and therefore globally right up to the election seems to be. flavor of the month what do you think about the u.s. because you know a temporary agreement looks like it's in the works here but that doesn't solve the fundamental problems the united states has with debt this may be the case but i think that still believe that the probability of a policy mistake in the united states is much less than the people going to the policy stake in europe i don't think that at this stage of the game there is an appetite in united states for making such an error and actually it's very interesting because puts us in a very nice contrast to the lehman situation i think there was an appetite back then to say you know it's good to have a big investment banks fail and and and something actually happened but i don't

think this is the case right now and probably this is the good news united states and i tell you if i can go to you on that one where do you think the u.s. is going and its economy and we look at volatility in the world because you know we're looking at the chinese are watching very carefully they don't want to see any kind of major breakdown in the u.s. budgetary system nor does anyone else in the world do you think the u.s. economy is going. well we don't expect you notice any. surprises on the positive side you know some unexpected jump in the. employment or the growth but. we think it's going to be pretty nice you know economy is going to expand moderately jobs will grow and you know there will be the budget deficit will be reduced just the question to how much and as we all heard if it was not would be not enough you know to keep the economy going it would be quite

if using three and a let's talk about now in the ninety's a little bit later but is find a good point if i got it under you are you as optimistic on the u.s. economy is going to tell us well i'm. going to succumb and then on the euro zone going to because you're going for almost. less fundamental i mean that they are going to be sold in a binary way in euro zone they will discuss a default or not default but it's a matter of how that will how much money will be printed to call that or. well how much. can be raised in the future so in a sense they're less fundamental than that if you was ok gentlemen let's go let's turn this to russia chris how it's all that we've mentioned in this program so far affecting russia and how will it affect russia well right now russia's been effective because investors globally are just risk adverse you know nobody's taking

any major bets they're watching the big picture in europe and the u.s. and that means that they're generally very quiet in countries like russia let's face it peripheral countries russia continues to be viewed as something as a derivative trade indeed lobel economy saw so that uncertainty is affecting russia and it's it's we're seeing volatility in the stock market or the market of course reflecting the news flow but in general there's not a great deal of investment activity in russia for now it has to be said you know thank god for libya. but you can say that i did i mean it's keeping the oil price at that one twenty so russia you know relatively looks fiscally and in terms of its budgets it looks very good but it's still you know the backdrop obviously it's still viewed as a as a risk economy indeed lobby context because we are so so exposed to the global economy and that long term you know is obviously the big picture is the big story for russia if if the u.s. or europe doesn't get it right if they make a major mistake and we dare for go into some you know a double dip or

a big slowdown and global economy then of course russia is going to be whacked just as much as they will talk about oil in the second part of the program or what do you think about this i mean how is russia fairing through all of this volatility because we can later on we'll talk about what happened in two thousand and eight but you know is russia a better bet in some ways i mean it is a flight to quality. in some ways i think russia is more vulnerable now than before and i would like to go back to the fiscally sure that i mentioned as everybody. that oil price that is needed to balance the budget right now it's a hundred and twenty five dollars it was much too. before before the crisis russia was in a much better fiscal positions they had more money to to to pursue aggressive counter cyclical fiscal policy if now we experienced a major shock to all prices i think the where we thought of the right of the russian authorities is much less so just could be an avenue where which they could be affected of course there are a number of ways you need to actually rush is less probably going to be going to be

less vulnerable for example they have a much more flexible exchange rate policy than before flexible exchange rate a more flexible exchange rate than the less flexible exchange rate before and they have a much less share much small share of short term external debt than before the crisis and i think this is also going to be positive in russia should do we experience some major external shocks in italy what do you think about that is russia more vulnerable now than it was before the start of the crisis in two thousand and. or of course much less vulnerable because so many lessons have been learned in two thousand and eight and now the policymakers are equipped with all these refinancing mechanisms you know the banks you know can be easily refinanced and much less dependent on the borings from the international lenders and also the reason why in my house is that there is much less hot money from international investors right now in russia and there is no virtually no leverage in the stock market so.

i would i would i would say that we await much less vulnerable and we'll learn a lot you know from the two thousand and want to go to we go to the i would what do you think about that russia more or less vulnerable than it was to in two thousand and eight will quickly before we go to the uk i think that corporate russia is less vulnerable than it was before the crisis because the duration of that was increased and the corporates have food on the list and so of the cross and souls need bought or more vulnerable because of this issue of ohio budget because the whole process and ok gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we go to a short break and after that break we'll continue our discussion on russia and global volatility state with our team.

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only unofficial nature reserve. to the original. but should close up on the party. welcome back to on the money i'm peter today we're talking about russia and volatility but first let's have an overview of russia in the global economy. the two thousand and eight now down so global investors desert russia live in the government billions into liquidity and economic support the reserve buffer russia had built up prior to that has been says largely rebuilt there is a reserve that has been built up and currently we have more than one hundred twenty billion dollars in the world funds. that those resources can be

used to further attenuate any crisis that comes rushing this way furthermore there are more than five hundred billion dollars in f.x. reserves that russia has to try to deal with any volatility in the exchange rate front still however. it needs to be taken into account that these levels of reserves are lower than the ones that russia had before the first wave of the crisis in two thousand and eight immediate two thousand and eleven key european players are stupid and will default line despite the markets already pricing one in with a major impact for russia likely to be through financial markets china's first have g.d.p. growth was still stronger than expected after repeated trade hikes and it ministers of measures to reduce inflation that lead into fears of a hard landing into possible flump in commodity prices the u.s.

debt ceiling impasse has the potential to bring the global economy to shuddering halt but the more likely commodity variable is a and to q e two it has been. a key factor inflating commodity prices including russian exports it into budget revenues and inflationary pressure still economists note that this scheme of government outlays has increased significantly still have to understand one point. when the crisis came russia's botches breakeven federal budget brick of a level below prices was wrong six to go per barrel was a crisis because russia continued social spending also because they. have the client with the slowdown now westerwelle the budget break in the under twenty dog about which is much much higher and the delicately balanced global economy is still rushing into so you always do with it has low levels of debt and large reserves but

you respond to that in that provide economic stimulus but the margin for error in the global economy worsens isn't less than it was an economic decision makers need to figure that into the shop and the money markets. ok gentlemen we've talked about russian policy in this in the in a volatile environment but let's talk about corporate russia chris how how much be learned through this crisis and we have this more volatility that we've talked about a double dip the eurozone can corporate russia take that kind of blow well as a lot of people have actually said before the break corporate russia is in a better debt situation right now than was the case in late two thousand and eight so from because they were because they were unless. you're supposed to learn lessons and also you know do the country and global economy generally has been you know rather low or lower growth or in crisis since since that period so there

hasn't been the opportunity perhaps to grow as fast as was the case before that but i think in general you could talking to executives in russia's big companies you know there. well aware of how vulnerable they were in two thousand and eight and they're all determined to avoid making those mistakes again so i think lessons have been learned but we find out when we get into the next room when we think about that actually i would agree i would agree with that as you mentioned before the level of short term that has been decreased and i think it would be very helpful if we experienced some out of difficulties of course the central bank before the crisis helped many of these corporates to pave ok i want to go through all of the government was very important in that point of time again a lot of short term debt that was repaid so obviously from that perspective the confidence in the getting the better shape right. let's let's say we get some major volatility and something of the magnitude of two thousand and eight two thousand and nine is the russian state in a position to bail out corporates and their debt issues because that's what they

did this the last time are in a position to do it again if it's necessary. well. the question is only in the balance of the. foreign exchange for any change in emanated loans versus denominated loans i think the corporate corporate switched more to the ruble to the ruble borings and the. rates are quite accommodative right now and they keep going down so now is the major russian corporation can borrow you know for five years you know the rates of six point five percent in rubles which is. just perfect it's actually lower than inflation so i think that's that's a good economics and i'm not sure you know they need to be bailed out. but even if they in the case of the external shock of course you know they're much better prepared to go for the refinancing because the banks can't take not only the

corporate bonds to the central bank to refinance or the banks can also take the corporate debt loads that in in the form they were under reagan so it's very very flexible now and lots of mechanisms how you know you can still provide fine lending to the corporates and the key question as we all know they know no business can be construed by was out financing there was a normal rate of boring for any for any business if you're in business and expect to pay back all your loans at some point then just better not started so basically that the question was learned so that the state of the banking system the shuttle back has to be in a position to maintain this normal level of boring switch and i agree was all of the previous speakers their level is you know normal on that what do you think about that is really is corporate russia in a strong position now if there's an external shock or we have more volatility. yeah

i would agree that they'll be my choice need corporates if something happens externally. and still government has formed reserves exceeded the total amount of the for russian federation. the problem is that in case of major external shock the government will have different problems i.e. problems with the budget. but if it happens the government needs to focus more on our fiscal side than on our corporate side ok chris let's go back to an issue that you brought up earlier and it was all ok thank god for libya i'm quoting here ok. but that's you know russia still has a commodity driven economy to a large extent that is they're trying to change them and trying to change it for a while but you know if we get some kind of external shock meanwhile prices go down

another commodity prices go down how is corporate russia and the russian state are they what's their strategy that is absolutely the key question in the whole you know some investment story for russia for the next few years as you say currently very commodity dependent means very vulnerable there for what happens in the rest of the world. the other government has been talking and identifying you know a whole series of reforms that need to be made across the whole is not enough is it enough come on you've been here a long time well what we actually want to see is progress on the reforms i mean you know providing lists of what needs to be done is fine we can all do that but what we're all waiting for and i think what investors are waiting for is some progress some action on those reforms to actually see that it has been implemented and i think that's you know on the one hand you could say you know if the price of oil were to go up to one fifty one sixty then you know we go back to the sort of complacency and slow progress we had before you know i think there's certainly an argument to be made that if the price of oil were to go down to something let's say

one hundred ninety nine not something dramatic would say down to one hundred. but there provides some financial stability but a lot more momentum and a lot more impetus to the reform program because you have to get armored and the key issue for russia looking over the next few years is that even one twenty one twenty five dollar oil is not going to prevent a significant slowdown in russia's economic growth the only way that can be prevented is with a substantial increase in investment and a lot of that would have to come from foreign investors if we have a double dip global recession it will be much more difficult to attract that it means the government will have to try harder to make russia even more attractive so i think it's substantially different game for the government after the next election what do you think about that i mean you know we when you look at the. price of oil and other commodities here do you think that the government is going in the right making the right move moves in making the right sounds because i've been here a long time and we've heard about diversifying risk for creation away from petroleum

but you know it's a very slow process that is that is still what i think that is one fundamental difference from our economic perspective right now russia is already running a fiscal deficit i think in three four years of time russia will start turning a current account deficit therefore in three or four years' time that actual felt will face a classic tween deficit problem just means that these twin deficit on external side on the fiscal side have to be financed somehow and the only way for us to be able to finance this is to attract foreign investment i think the government maybe for the first time in a very long period of time understands that so they understand that they have to make some improvements in the overall business environment in order to be able to finance this deficit and i think that again russia has never lifted such deficit and it will be a totally different paradigm for them and this is the only way for them to finance the deficit we have to improve the overall business environment you have to. decrease corruption and all these reforms i think that there will be more serious about because of the prospects of facing tween deficits in the future and i tell

you what do you think about. this is a very good point it brings up about double deficits or is the state prepared for this. well it's hard to get you know prepared for this on one side you need massive investments in infrastructure and you need basically to not only help in a economy as that happened in two thousand eighty thousand and nine when the state was helping out the corporate sector the private sector to sustain the crisis but you really need to get the investment started you know the internal investment started. you know on a massive scale much much bigger than we ever seen before. so that's that's a key thing and that's the micro konami. issues microeconomics it's not a macro it's very hard for the can try the government can try but it just it takes time but what we see and what we just are very glad to see that you know it's. you

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