At 15.01 Moscow time (13.01 in Poland), the MosBirch Index, which includes shares of the 43 largest Russian companies, dropped by 1.24 percent — to 3217 points. In the first minutes of the session, this decrease was over 2%.
The yuan rate compared to ruble increased by 3.2 percent — to 11.57 ruble, meaning the largest regular decline in Russian currency since September last year. The Forex marketplace loses 2.6% to the dollar and 1.8% to the euro, with the American currency costing 83.85 rubles and the European 91.04 rubles.
The declines in the stock marketplace began the night before — shortly after Putin and Trump had almost 2 hours of conversation. — The investors were negatively affected by the deficiency of firm moves after telephone conversation between 2 presidents “This is Alfa Bank strategist John Walsh.
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Although Trump himself called the conversation with Putin "good" and "constructive", and according to the Reuter Agency, it lasted the longest in modern past of relations between Moscow and Washington, it did not bring concrete decisions. Putin only agreed to a 30-day refrain from attacking Ukrainian energy facilities — provided Kiev does the same.
At the same time, he rejected the proposal for a complete ceasefire which the Trump administration agreed with Ukraine. He argued that the West should completely suspend military aid to Ukraine. “The result of the conversation between Putin and Trump was no surprise. We inactive have a long way to go to accomplish peace in Ukraine," says Alexey Antonov, analyst Alor Broker.
— Investors apparently expected more concrete statements and actions According to the banker Evgeny Kogan.
Meanwhile It wasn't long after the conversation, and the Russian military violated the arrangements for talks between the Kremlin and the White House. — hit the Slavic energy infrastructure. In response, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in the Krasnodar region, causing an object fire.
Ludmila Rokotianska, an analyst with BCS, believes that the deficiency of agreement on a 30-day ceasefire could possibly lead to an increase in sanctions force on Russia. However, he admits that so far the authoritative rhetoric of the United States is opposed — which may prompt any to talk about the "brill abolition of sanctions on Russian oil".
