The ruble hit multi-month lows at the opening of trading on Tuesday, following the general trends of emerging market currencies and commodity markets, from which flight continues amid a possible reduction in monetary stimulus programs by the US Federal Reserve and weak Chinese statistics. Quotations of the ruble against the bi-currency basket ( $0.55 and 0.45 euros) at MICEX trading by 10.25 Moscow time were at the level of 37.18, the value of the basket increased by 13 kopecks. Previously, the basket reached a new high since June 22 last year - 37.22 rubles.

The dollar in the “ tomorrow” settlements section increased by 10 kopecks. to 32.41. In the morning it reached 32.45 - the maximum since September 5, 2012. The euro is rising in price by 39 kopecks in “ tomorrow” calculations, trading around 43.03 - these values are the maximum since October 2011.

The ruble follows the general Forex trends, where peer currencies are also updating multi-month and multi-year lows.

The different growth rates of the ruble cross rates of the dollar and the euro reflect the situation in the euro/dollar pair, where the single currency has been growing since the beginning of the day. Current quotes are near $1.3272 versus $1.3256 at Monday's close.

by the Central Bank can keep the ruble from falling deeper Currency interventions . According to the regulator itself, at current levels of the bi-currency basket, it sells about $200 million daily.