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We continue to consider Russia equities to be one of the best value stories in the world with the highest dividend yield among global equity markets.
OPEC members and independent oil exporting countries have extended their output cut agreement by nine months to the end of March 2018.
The food import ban of 2014-2017 may have a role to play in the ongoing remarkable transformation of Russia’s agricultural sector. Two major segments of agriculture have already developed from poorly coordinated and underfinanced subsistence markets into modern, high tech, fully vertically integrated and internationally competitive industries.
The Russian government has set a mandatory dividend payout level for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at a minimum of 50% of RAS/IFRS net income. This has been a long-awaited event, which is expected to provide a boost to MSCI Russia dividend yield and assist the government in its challenging task of covering the federal budget deficit.