The dollar in Russia fell into another 8 kopecks

The fall of the US dollar to the ruble at exchange trading on Friday resumed without the participation of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which bought more than $ 2 billion the day before. According to the results of the morning trading, the course dropped by another 8 kopecks, falling by 12:40 Moscow time in the area of ​​27.925 rubles.

The weighted average ruble exchange rate at a single trading session at 11:30, which determines the official CB of the Russian Federation, today amounted to 27.9271 rubles. This is the highest value of the ruble to the dollar since December 14, 2000, ITAR-TASS notes.

Meanwhile, as Interfax notes, at the levels of 27.92-27.93 rubles a cautious purchase appeared on the market - banks closed “short positions” so that there are no reasons for stopping the dollar to stop, even despite the correction of the euro in the international Forex market.

The volume of operations on the MICEX remains high - for transactions with the calculations of "Today", by 12:40 is more than $ 1 billion, for transactions with the calculations of "Tomorrow" - 460 million.

According to Vasily Ushakov, the head of the conversion operation of the conversionbank, the Central Bank has not entered the market with the support of the dollar, which allowed the speculators to continue the game to decrease. At the same time, sales of dollars today are already not so aggressive - after yesterday's record sales on the market there was a certain shortage of dollars. According to Ushakov, for a while the market can take a break, and the fall of the dollar will stop for several days.