SPB Exchange to begin trading in limited list of Russian securities at 2 p.m. Moscow time

MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - The SPB Exchange will begin trading at 2 p.m. Moscow time in the main mode with a limited list in the Russian Securities group of instruments, the trading platform said in a statement.

The list includes around 30 securities, including the shares of the SPB Exchange.

The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which is responsible for enforcing sanctions, added the SPB Exchange to the sanctions list on Thursday. Trading in foreign and Russian shares on the stock exchange was suspended following the announcement.

The SPB Exchange later on Thursday announced that there would not be any trading in foreign securities and Russian securities in the main trading mode on November 3, and that trading was planned to begin on November 6.