Can you no longer trade on the Moscow Exchange? Will it effect collecting dividends? Can I get paid dividends by purchasing through a 3rd country like Switzerland?
Excluding Russian banks from SWIFT would restrict the country's access to financial markets around the world. I am not sure if this excludes the MOEX. I am more interested in how this would affect the US markets.
It's interesting to me. All these books I've read about needing to 'diversify' by investing in other countries like Russia etc. Turns out that may not have been such a wise idea after all.
Hmm...I wonder if there's a Swiss account I could open to trade them and still collect the dividends.
well, diversifying will prevent having all your money in Russia, Ukraine, or second tier US tech names. You will only have some of your money in those investments.
You must be a real idiot to trade/invest in Russia. You clearly have no clue how Russians are. They are so reliable the all the oligarchs put there money outside of Russia and they don't live in Russia.
Look at the companies. They're trading at 3xPE and paying 10% yields. I'm not advocating going all in on Russia, but I think it's very much +EV in a diversified portfolio. Going by the old adage, "buy when there's blood in the streets". That's literally true now.
And tomorrow Putin can say that foreigners cannot hold stocks and will lose their money. In Russia there are no laws, only Putin's instructions. If you buy Russian stocks it will be with high probablity your blood in the streets.