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Banks Place Record Amounts in Central Bank Deposits

RUSSIA
  • Speaking this morning, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Russian oil products remain in demand in Europe, Tass reports. Russia will monitor how the situation develops in March. Novak added that the oil industry will work steadily despite the EU embargo on oil products, which came into force Feb 5.
  • Kommersant report that banks placed record amounts on central bank deposits, and that the weekly deposit auction exceeded RUB5trln for the first time on Feb 7. However, analysts are confident that the current liquidity surplus will be short-term, and in March bank deposits to the central bank will return to more familiar levels.
  • Five global nuclear powers (US, UK, Russia, China and France) held a 2-day working meeting in Dubai, Kommersant reports citing unidentified officials. The sides were represented by delegations from foreign ministries, though no details were provided on what was discussed. The last conference of the nuclear P5 was held in December 2021.
  • A slew of macro data is on the docket today, including weekly CPI data, retail sales data (Exp: -8.7% y/y), real wage data and unemployment figures (Exp: 3.8%). All data will be released at 1600 GMT/1900 local time.

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