US Bars Investors From Buying Russian Debt, Stocks on Secondary Market

US Bars Investors From Buying Russian Debt, Stocks on Secondary Market
A Russian ruble banknote is placed on euro banknotes in an illustration taken on March 1, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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WASHINGTON/LONDON—The U.S. Treasury Department has banned U.S. money managers from buying any Russian debt or stocks in secondary markets, on top of its existing ban on new-issue purchases, in its latest sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

Despite Washington’s sweeping sanctions in recent months, Americans were still allowed to trade hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets already in circulation on secondary markets.