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Russia bourses halt trade pending notice

Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:27am EDT

MOSCOW, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and RTS, said they suspended trading of shares on Wednesday until further notice from the Federal Financial Markets Service, the state markets watchdog.

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The rouble-denominated MICEX exchange was down 3.1 percent at 853.9 index points as the suspension came into force at 0810 GMT, while the RTS was down 6.4 percent to 1,058.8 points. (Reporting by Olga Popova, writing by Simon Shuster; Editing by Maria Kiselyova, Paul Bolding)

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