The official exchange rates of the dollar and the euro rebounded by 4 rubles. – RBC

The Bank of Russia has published the official exchange rates of the dollar and the euro on January 22, 2016. The regulator has increased the rates of major world currencies at once more than 4 rubles.

The US dollar rose to 79.4614 to 83.5913 rubles., The official euro exchange rate jumped from 87.0341 to 91.1814 rubles.

On Thursday, January 21, trading on the Moscow stock exchange began with the abrupt collapse of the ruble, the national currency during the first hours of trading fell more than 4%.

On Wednesday, trading closed at 81 4 rubles. the dollar and 88.646 rubles. per euro. By 12:00 MSK on Thursday the dollar on the Moscow Stock Exchange was worth 85.999 rubles. And for one euro was 93.70 rubles. In the course of further ruble trades played a little bit and 15:50 dollar exchange rate fell to 84.25 rubles., And the euro – up to 91.88 rubles.

The Fall of the Russian currency was due to lower oil prices. After a brief stabilization level of about $ 30 per barrel price of Brent crude oil has fallen below this value, and for four trading sessions only once risen above this psychologically important level. As at 15:50 on January 21 for a barrel of Brent on London Stock Exchange gave $ 27,78.

President’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, declined to describe what is happening with the Russian currency word “collapse”. “I did not use to the word” collapse “. The course is really changing, volatile exchange rate, but this is not a collapse, “- he said.

According to Peskov, the Central Bank rather closely monitoring the situation and analyzes it. “In this case there is no reason to believe that the Central Bank no scripts that are designed to avoid actually landslide phenomena”, – assured the press secretary of the president.

As the trader of “openness” Sergei Fishgoyt, a sharp drop in the ruble may be associated with yesterday’s statement by the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, noting that the exchange rate is close to the fundamental importance and that the Central Bank intends to intervene only in case of a threat to financial stability. Following the announcement, the dollar rose to 82 rubles.

The head of trading in the currency market, Alexander FG BCS Mulberger said that one of the major players in the second day focused on buying up the currency market. According to him, it comes to large parties, as exhibited significant items to purchase foreign currency.