The ruble on the last working day of the week in the evening poorly declined against the dollar and the Euro in the framework of the consolidation before the weekend. High geopolitical risks not allow the ruble to strengthen, despite the traditional shortage of ruble liquidity in the tax period.

The dollar exchange rate calculations " tomorrow " to 18. 46 GMT were up by 6 cents to 34, 46 of the rouble, the Euro Rate grew by 2 kopecks to 46, 81 ruble, follows from the data of the capital market. The cost of the currency basket (0, 55 dollars and 0.45 euros) grew by 4 kopecks in comparison with level of the last closed and was 40, 02 ruble.

The dollar exchange rate calculations " today " on the last working day of the week increased by 2 kopecks to 34, 34 of the rouble, the Euro Rate decreased by 3 kopecks to 46, 67 roubles.

The Euro on the Forex to 18. 45 Moscow time was equal to 1, 3581 dollar against 1, 3605 dollar at the previous closing.


The ruble on the last working day of the week fluctuated around a level of the last close of a lack of strong signals. In addition, the approach of the holidays on controversial background, had no possibility for active play on the domestic currency market.

So, the beginning of the tax period in Russia contributed exporters to sell foreign currency to replenish ruble liquidity.

However messages about the intensified fighting in Eastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, where the Ukrainian troops tried to return the supervision on frontier posts, increased geopolitical risks that before the weekend pushed against the Ruble.

as a result, the Cost of the currency basket has remained around the middle of the floating band that do not carry out foreign exchange interventions of the Central Bank.

The head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina made on the last working day of the week a series of important statements - for example, that the CBR sees no shortage of liquidity in the banking market. On the first day of the week, the Bank of Russia increased the forecast of volumes of providing liquidity to the banking sector for 2014 estimated 7 trillion rubles 5 trillion.


The escalation of risks in the South-East the Ukraine is an opportunity to talk about balancing risks for ruble, emphasizes Evgeny Koshelev of ROSBANK.

" in this connection we expect in the coming days, return the value of a basket to higher levels (40, 30-40, 50 rubles). Technical attempts to strengthen the EUR/USD are able to restrain the Ruble/dollar at the level of 34, 50 ruble and return the pair Euro/Ruble above the level of 47 rubles ", - he said.

this week on the Russian market are expected to large tax payments, reminded senior analyst IK " Veles Capital " Yuri Kravchenko.

" However, to support the domestic currency, this event will have a chance only If no new negative news concerning the military conflict in Ukraine. For its part, the external news background promises to be rather scarce. Overall, the dollar/Ruble will continue volatile movement in the range of 34, 25-34, 75, reacting mainly on data from Ukraine ", - he added.

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