{"id":4767,"date":"2018-04-11T05:16:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=849a0f4085017366acb928c3a91a5dcd"},"modified":"2018-04-11T05:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T09:16:41","slug":"ruble-falls-for-3rd-day-following-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/ruble-falls-for-3rd-day-following-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruble falls for 3rd day following US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW &#8212; The Russian ruble has again fallen sharply as last week&#8217;s U.S. sanctions continue to bite.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar traded above 64 rubles on the Moscow exchange Wednesday morning for the first time since 2016, a 2 per cent drop, though the ruble later recovered slightly to 63.8 by midday.<\/p>\n<p>The euro neared the 80-ruble mark briefly before falling back to 79.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. sanctions imposed Friday barred U.S. citizens from doing business with numerous Russian businessmen, officials and companies, and froze any assets they may have in U.S. jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Russian markets have been spooked not only by the impact on sanctioned companies such as aluminum producer Rusal but also by the prospect of further such sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW &mdash; The Russian ruble has again fallen sharply as last week&rsquo;s U.S. sanctions continue to bite. The dollar traded above 64 rubles on the Moscow exchange Wednesday morning for the first time since 2016, a 2 per cent drop, though the ruble later recovered slightly to 63.8 by midday. The euro neared the 80-ruble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}