Today, December 9, financial markets are in good spirits. The broad market index S&P 500 at the auction on December 8 updated historical highs, Anton Greenstein, an expert of the Hamilton information and analytical center, told a REGNUM correspondent.
“European stock indices are growing by an average of 0.1% today, and Brent crude rose by 0.5%, so the external background for Russian assets looks very good.
There are, of course, risk factors, for example, the adoption by the House of Representatives of the US Congress of the military budget for 2021 with new sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines.
There is still a high likelihood of the failure of the talks between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the Brexit agreement.
However, for a negative impact on the ruble exchange rate, these risks still need to be fully realized, but even in this case, the Russian currency today has the right to count on support from the OFZ placements by the Ministry of Finance of Russia.
So, despite the foreign policy risks, as well as the approach of the ruble to the important support levels of 72.00 73.00 per US dollar, the Russian currency is likely to spend today close to the current values in the range of 73.00 73.50 per unit of the American currency , - the expert considers.
