St. Alexey Rybnikov, President of the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (SPIMEX), is leaving his post. He may be replaced by Igor Artemyev, the former head of the FAS. Agency sources reported that Interfax.
According to one of the interlocutors, a change in the management of the stock exchange will be announced in the coming days. Some sources state Artemyev’s appointment date as November 1. Rybnikov has been with St. Petersburg since 2011. He heads the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange. It is Russia’s largest commodity exchange and organizes trade in oil, gas, timber, fertilizer and other commodity markets.
Available at SPbMTSB from the end of July observed Abnormal increase in prices of main types of fuel. The Russian government banned the export of gasoline and diesel from September 21, and from October 6 the damper was adjusted and the conditions for selling petroleum products on the stock exchange were increased. As a result, fuel costs have fallen by almost 30% from record levels. According to independent expert Konstantin Tserazov, it became the main indicator of fuel prices following the government’s measures to stabilize the market. Maybe becomes the ruble exchange rate.
Formerly in the government of the Russian Federation stated On stabilizing the situation in retail prices of oil products.