The Russian stock market opened on Thursday with a decline in most blue chips amid mixed signals from external stock markets and cheaper oil (Brent is trading around $110 per barrel); The RTS and Moscow Exchange indices lost 0.2-0.5% per minute of trading, while the papers of Polyus PJSC are leading in the rollback and the shares of Mobile Telesystems are growing on dividend news.
By 10:01 Moscow Exchange index was 2361.94 points (-0.5%), RTS index – 1400.07 points (-0.2%); the prices of the majority of „blue chips” on the „Moscow Exchange” fell within 1.9%.
The dollar costs 53.13 rubles (-0.02 rubles).
Shares of PJSC Polyus (-1.9%), Magnit (-1.6%), LUKOIL (-1.1%), Tatneft (-1%), Nornickel (- 1%), MMK (-0.9%), Severstal (-0.8%), VTB (-0.8%), Yandex (-0.8%), OZON receipts (- 0.8%), shares of Aeroflot (-0.7%), NOVATEK (-0.7%), NLMK (-0.6%), Inter RAO (-0.6% ), Gazprom (-0.5%), Surgutneftegaz (-0.4% and -0.5% of preferred shares), Polymetal (-0.4%), TCS Group receipts (-0.4 %), shares of Rosneft (-0.3%), AFK Sistema (-0.3%), Moscow Exchange (-0.2%), Sberbank (-0.2% and -0, 8% „prefs”).
