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Serhiy Fursa

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Dragon Capital Deputy Director for Securities Trading

Since 2005, he has been working on the Ukrainian bond market, watching the ups and downs of both the market and the Ukrainian economy. Has seen it all begin, and hopes to see how everything rise again.
Education:
● System analysis of the financial market, NTUU KPI, 2005,
● International University of Finance, 2006
Recognized as the best analyst on the Ukrainian bond market in 2005-2009, according to the Sbonds agency.
Author of the fiction book The Way Home, 2008-2011.
● Deputy Director for Securities Trading at Dragon Capital.
● investment analyst Astrum Capital, 2005-2008;
● investment analyst at UkrSibbank.

Strong Hryvnia and Effective Dollar Exchange

The difference between the official rate and the black market rate for hryvnia-dollar exchanges is already below 5% – This is downright unworkable by the standard of the black and gray markets.

4 April 2023, 04:54 PM 159

Investors complain, but central banks shrug

The signing of an SLA with the IMF under a new program was a key event in Ukraine. It still has to be approved by the Fund's board, but this, as always, is more of a formality

28 March 2023, 02:21 PM 161

Russia's budget deficit. Has it started?

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation scared all residents of the Kremlin and the surrounding area about the deficit of the Russian budget. That’s not a joke: in January it amounted to 1.6 trillion rubles, which is equal to 60% of the annual deficit plan.

16 February 2023, 12:46 PM 488

The world is full of optimism

This past January was the best January in many years. And many remembered the old legend of the stock market that as goes January, so will go the whole year

5 February 2023, 12:25 PM 327

Is this what Putin is waiting for? What’s going on in the global economy

The IMF improved its forecast for global economics dynamics in 2023. The Fund is expecting now 2.9% growth. Previously it was 2.7%.

1 February 2023, 12:53 PM 741

When the price of oil and gas pleases ordinary Ukrainians

Fears for the fate of the world economy lead to pressure on the oil market, a trend that is good news for every Ukrainian

9 January 2023, 02:11 PM 481

Putin establishes a "truce" for 36 hours. What does this say?

Putin hasinstituted a “ceasefire” for 36 hours and calls on the Ukrainian army to do thesame "so that the Orthodox can celebrate Christmas"

8 January 2023, 04:05 PM 316

Bad week for the ruble and Kremlin

Over the past seven days, the Russian ruble went from 64 rubles per dollar to 72, and then climbed back to 69 rubles per dollar.

27 December 2022, 05:25 PM 2606

Who decided to steal Christmas

A certain relaxation in anticipation of the holiday reigned over the markets last week

21 December 2022, 01:32 PM 552

The face of another Russia? My thoughts on the TV Rain situation

Russian liberal media in Russia's war against Ukraine are more likely to help Putin than fight him

9 December 2022, 02:50 PM 452

Oil price ceiling: homeopathy or surgery?

5 December 2022, 12:02 PM 501

Everything is going by the book. Will there be new massive missile strikes?

They don’t fire missiles for nothing, and not just to cause hysteria, either.

2 December 2022, 06:01 PM 570

Why Putin is blackmailing Europe with gas

Putin is blackmailing Europe and risks losing Russia’s largest market.

2 May 2022, 09:15 PM 679

Euthanasia for Russia

Western intellectuals continue living in the paradigm that Russia can be changed for the better. Russia, they assume, is capable of bringing something bright and good to the world. You only have to replace Putin and appoint a different figure! Sadly, this type of thinking is no longer naivety, this is now crime of negligence.

13 April 2022, 12:03 PM 2522

Simple reasons behind the weakening hryvnia

Currency exchange rates in Ukraine have seen rapid change lately. The hryvnia slumped to UAH 28.0 to the dollar – a low the Ukrainian currency has not experienced in a while. The fall was rather rapid, leaving many people alarmed, and predictably spawning a whole host of conspiracy theories.

19 January 2022, 11:50 PM 414

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