The Russian stock market on Tuesday, September 28, closed at the fall the main stock market indexes along with a decrease in oil prices. Following the auction on the Moscow Stock Exchange Mosbirzhi index fell 0.44 percent to 4063.41 points, the RTS index – to 1755.44 points (minus 1.06 percent). Despite the drop at the end of the day, during the afternoon trading Mosbirzhi index rose to 4112.31 points and updated the historical maximum.
The dollar at 18:40 Moscow time rose to 72.89 rubles (plus 0.35 rubles), the euro – up to 85.19 rubles (plus 0.31 rubles). The cost of Brent crude oil fell by 0.94 per cent to 77.98 dollar per barrel mark WTI – by 0.82 per cent to 74.83 dollar
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Happy oil becomes more expensive, the November Brent futures topped $ 80 for the first time since October 2018. On this news shares of Russian oil and gas companies set records. The securities of “Rosneft”, “Lukoil” and “Gazprom oil” updated historical highs, rising to 639.9 rubles, 7141.5 rubles and 484.6 rubles per share, respectively.
The largest growth of “blue chips” became “Surgutneftegaz” – plus 1.27 percent, to 33,960 rubles apiece, an outsider – TCS Group – 6216 ruble (minus 3.62 percent)