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Russian markets slide on news of US sanctions

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Alexa Meyer
April 9, 2018

Russia’s rouble has suffered its biggest daily fall in three years and stocks in major companies slid by up to 50 percent as investors reacted to a new set of US sanctions aimed at hurting some of Russia’s most powerful tycoons.

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