Ruble gains against dollar and euro thanks to oil prices and stock exchanges
MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - The Russian ruble posted gains against the U.S. dollar and euro during MICEX trading on Monday thanks to Friday's gains for world oil prices and stock markets, which took place following the release of positive labor stats from the U.S.
At the same time, the euro's losses were stronger than the dollar because of its drop on the Forex driven by delays in negotiations for Greek debt. The Central Bank of Russia's bi-currency basket went down by 13 kopecks to 34.27 rubles.
The dollar went down by seven kopecks on the MICEX to close at 30.12 rubles/$1 while the euro fell 20 kopecks to finish at 39.34 rubles/EUR1.
The dollar's average weighted exchange rate on MICEX went up 1.94 kopecks to 30.2485 rubles/$1 in Today deals and 1.07 kopecks to 30.236 rubles/$1 in Tomorrow deals. Combined dollar trading on MICEX amounted to $6.0072 billion; of which $1.1635 billion were Today deals and $4.8437 billion were Tomorrow deals.
The euro's average weighted rate went down by 22.29 kopecks to 39.5224 rubles/EUR1 in Today deals and 26.93 kopecks to 39.4718 rubles/EUR1 in Tomorrow deals. Combined euro trading amounted to 472.419 million euro, of which 208.707 million euro were Today deals and 263.712 million euro were Tomorrow deals.
The overnight MosPrime Rate went up two basis points to 4.51%.