The oil price remained stable, but the ruble and the stock-price indices lost 30% in the subsequent 24 hours. An unprecedented effort by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) in the wee hours of December 16 to stabilize the ruble, by hiking the interest rate from 10.5% to 17%, proved useless.
巴黎—最近几周，俄罗斯卢布和俄罗斯股票市场的下跌紧随着全球油价的下降。但12月15日，一切都改变了。油价保持稳定，但卢布和股价指数在随后的24小时下降了30%。俄罗斯中央银行（CBR）采取了前所未有的行动，将利率从10.5%升至17%，但这一动作只是将卢布稳定了一小会儿便宣告失败。