US dollar exchange rate set the historical record – RBC

The dollar on the Moscow Stock Exchange reached its highest value since the time of the denomination in 1998. At the maximum rate of US dollar reached the level of 80.35 rubles., Which is 1,789 rubles. above the closing level of the previous trading session.

The previous time record for the dollar was recorded December 16, 2014, when it amounted to 80.1 rubles.

The euro today on the Moscow stock exchange is also growing, up at the maximum to the level of 87.714 rubles., which is 1,994 rubles. above the closing level of the previous trading session.

Analysts Sberbank CIB Tom Levinson, Vladimir Pantyushin and Iskander Lutsko noted that the pressure on the ruble, pushing the pair dollar / ruble to around 80 have oil prices.

In the course of today’s trading on the stock exchange ICE futures price for Brent crude oil for delivery in March 2016 fell to $ 27,79.

Today is expected to publish the API data on the volume of oil stocks in the United States tomorrow – Energy statistics USA. Experts fear that if the published data show a sharp increase in the price of oil stocks may fall even more.

«Oil, which is at risk to leave the mark of $ 27 on the background of the next data on the growth of US reserves. With this scenario the ruble will try to gain a foothold above 80 rub. / Dollar., Short-term dollar / ruble – 78,5-80,5 “- notes the analyst of Nordea Bank Denis Davydov.

According to the analyst PSB Ekaterina Krylova , the cost of a barrel of oil could fall to $ 25 even.

Earlier, the head of Sberbank German Gref predicted that the dollar can rise to 80 rubles. it is in case of a fall in oil prices to $ 25.

On the eve of economists Bank of America estimated that the fall in oil prices to $ 25 a barrel for a balanced performance of the Russian budget for 2016 the dollar should cost 210 rubles.

We also recall that the Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev recently predicted that in 2030 Russia will become a country in which “no one will be interested in the question of how much oil is today and what today the dollar.”