Fluctuations of capital markets and the impact on the ruble and the U.S. dollar

On Thursday, the opening of trading the currency section of the MICEX dollar fell to a domestic ruble, but since recovered and is near yesterday's levels. By the ruble against the currency basket has not changed.

So, the trading session for the USD today started with the level of 29.7 rubles (-11 cents against the closing levels of protection), but later buck strengthened to 29.83 rubles, thus withdrawing from the lowest level of 1.5 months.

EUR started the session with a mark of 40.75 rubles (+3 penny).
The cost of currency basket with the emergence of players collapsed to 34.7 rubles, but managed to recoup and recover to 34.75 rubles, almost yesterday's mark.

The first price hikes today's session, it is due to the speculative mood of traders, and the current state of affairs when the ruble does not show a clear direction, points to the instability in the stock and commodity platforms.

Rather, trading on Thursday for a pair of ruble / dollar will be in the range of 29.68-30.0 rubles per dollar.