Brent Brent fell by $ 3 per day

Futures contracts for the purchase of North Sea oil brand Brents fell to $ 57 per barrel - the fall in the evening of December 29 amounted to about $ 3. The previous time oil was so cheap in March 2009.

For the barrel of the American WTI, they give less than $ 53.

On the morning of December 30, Russian markets opened with a short -term fall against the backdrop of cheaply oil and announcing the sentence to the opposition Alexei Navalny (conditional period of 3.5 years) and his brother Oleg (received 3.5 years of colony). Having reached 59 rubles on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar rolled into 4 rubles, and then stabilized around 57 rubles. The euro showed a maximum of 72.5 rubles, and then dropped to 70 rubles.

The MICEX index lost 2.2% from the beginning of trading, the RTS fell by 3.1%.

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