(30 Jul 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
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Moscow - 30 July 2015
1. Close of exchange rate board
2. Wide of street
3. Various of Tom Levinson, Chief Strategist FX and rates chief strategist at Sberbank investment Research
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Levinson, Chief Strategist FX and rates chief strategist at Sberbank investment Research:
"In mid-May, when dollar-ruble had fallen all the way from 70 down to around 50, the central bank indicated that it was too strong and at that point they started intervening in financial markets again, they started buying foreign currencies, and that helped - together with the fact that oil prices started to fall again helped dollar-ruble move all the way up from 50 to 60, which was the place we got to yesterday. And when dollar-ruble crossed above 60 yesterday, central bank announced that it was going to stop those interventions, probably because it viewed that the currency is being weak enough. So now we're in a situation where it's not intervening and the currency is sort of free to do its own thing again and that comes back to the point that it's very much oil price driven."
5. Cutaway
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chief Strategist FX and rates chief strategist at Sberbank investment Research:
"We're relatively negative on the ruble between now and the year-end so, for example, if dollar-ruble at the moment is trading around 60, we expect by year-end for it to be around 65."
7. Various of exchange rate board
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vox pop, Alexander, no last name given, Moscow resident:
"The situation is pretty much the same for all of us. Our income is in rubles and everything else depends on that. But sooner or later everything will be stabilised. It's not the first crisis and we've been through all of this before. People just have to be doing their jobs properly and everything will be ok."
9. Close of exchange rate board
10. Man distributing leaflets in the street
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vox pop, Elizaveta Galminos, student:
"I was really worried recently because I thought a new big crisis was coming - and it might be that it's really there - but of course the prices have gone higher etcetera. However, we naturally hope that all of this will soon pass, all these sanctions will be cancelled and that in the next year everything will get better, because if it continues like this we can expect nothing good in the future."
12. Various of people walking in shopping area
STORYLINE
The Russian ruble fell one percent in Moscow trading on Thursday, to 59.44 against the US dollar.
The decline comes a day after the Russian central bank halted daily purchases of foreign currency in an attempt to stop a week-long slide in the ruble, which hit its lowest point in more than four months against the dollar.
The ruble has been falling under the pressure of cheaper oil, reviving concerns over the country's economic outlook.
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