First real day of trading after the winter holidays in
Russia.
The last week of December saw a big rally on the market following the Central Bank's decision to maintain the key rate at 21%. A wild number, but the expectation of most analysts was that it would be raised to 23%. So, investors reacted very positively.
Well, today was the day that big players decided to secure their profits with lots of movement. Which saw the MOEX lose about 2.38% of its value falling below 2,800 points.
The oil sector saw the biggest correction over concerns that the Biden administration would announce new sanctions targetting oil companies and Russia's shadow fleet. Interesting to see how much further
$ROSN falls tomorrow considering today is the cutoff for dividends.
Today was also the first day that
$X5 was back to being traded after its relocation to Russia. Lots of movemebt and volatility today. I think it could potentially grow and am thinking of picking up a humble lot, but I'll wait for the speculators to settle down to try and get a reasonable price. A fellow PULSEr,
@LuckyTest, commented below saying it's too early to tell right now on whether it'll grow or not. (Before I edited this post, I'd written that it could grow in the next 6-8 months. But I agree, we just don't know yet.)