From 10 am to 11 am local time (8:00 am – 9:00 am CET), transactions were carried out only as limited, so-called discrete auctions. During this time, offers were accepted and then to be implemented. It will not be possible to trade government bonds in the normal mode from 1 pm to 5 pm Moscow time, but without the possibility of short-term purchases.
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Transactions will take place on the currency market and the precious metals market from 10 am to 7 pm. It will also trade in derivatives and with the ETF fund SPDR S&P 500 Trust. The DomKlik real estate index should also work.
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Shares of large companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Moderna Tesla, Visa or Amazon, Boeing, Baidu and Qualcomm should also be traded from 2.30 pm. From 4 pm with the securities of another 1,637 international companies, according to RBK.
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Hard effects of stock exchange closure
The stock exchange closed at the end of February to prevent the market from collapsing in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions. During that time, the key interest rate in Russia rose from 9.5 to 20 percent.
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The central bank, which, according to a report from the Moscow Times on Friday, is buying back government bonds in order to maintain the market, will probably suffer losses, the BFM.ru server said. He pointed out that due to market developments, investors may be in big trouble, when clients themselves will owe brokers.
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According to him, the central bank also temporarily allowed the Moscow Stock Exchange to trade for people who do not live in Russia and come from non-friendly countries. Russian clients of subsidiaries of Russian brokers abroad that will be placed on an equal footing with them.
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From April 1, non-cash interstate payments will also be available.
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Western experts do not expect the opening of the Moscow Stock Exchange to cause further major turmoil in the international market, Anthony Kim from the Heritage Foundation told Fox News. He emphasized that Russia had repaid bond yields, which should lead to a smoother handling of the situation, but added that the impact on the Russian market would be significant. He mentioned that sanctions have a greater impact. The Russian market will be strongly influenced by them.
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