The Central Bank of Russia lowered the official US dollar exchange rate on January 23. This is evidenced by the information on the Central Bank website.
The American exchange rate was set at 87.97 rubles. For comparison: the official dollar exchange rate on January 20-22 was 88.59 rubles.
The official euro exchange rate for Tuesday was also reduced to 95.88 rubles instead of 96.38 rubles for the period January 20-22.
The Chinese yuan exchange rate decreased from 12.27 rubles to 12.18 rubles.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Nikkei stock index was announced on Monday for the first time since February 1990. exceeded 36.5 thousand points. At the end of the trading session, the indicator closed at 36,546 points, up 1.6%.
At the same time, Chinese shares are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday. accelerated a decline. The price of the securities has fallen to record lows since the early 2000s, and the discount to mainland counterparts has reached 36%.
The situation in the Hong Kong market looks even sadder looking at trading on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 index surpassed 4,839 points for the first time in two years on Friday, January 19.
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