The Central Bank lowered the official dollar exchange rate on October 24 to 94.7 rubles

The Bank of Russia lowered the official dollar exchange rate on October 24 to 94.71 rubles, which is 1 ruble. 19 kopecks below today’s figure, follows from the regulator’s data.

The official euro exchange rate was reduced by 1 ruble. 12 kopecks up to 100.3 rubles, and the yuan – by 14 kopecks. up to 12.92 rub.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange as of 16:29 Moscow time was 94.4 rubles. (-0.96%), and the euro – 100.17 rubles. (-0.68%).

The ruble began the new working week strengthening against three world currencies, Vedomosti wrote today. From last week’s highs, the dollar and euro fell by 3.4%, and the yuan by 3.5%. The ruble has strengthened against the American and Chinese currencies for the fourth session in a row, and against the euro for three out of the last four.

The main factor in the strengthening of the ruble, analysts noted, is now the preparation of exporters for the tax payment period. In October, taxes payable will amount to 1.4 trillion rubles, which is twice the level of September, estimates Sergei Konygin, senior economist at the Sinara investment bank. Senior analyst of Management Company “Pervaya” Vladislav Danilov expects an even larger volume of taxes – 1.6-1.7 trillion rubles, which is due to rising oil prices, as well as the payment of a tax on additional income from the production of hydrocarbons (AIT), which is paid alone once every three months.

On October 11, it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the mandatory sale of proceeds in foreign currency received by individual Russian exporters under foreign trade agreements. The goals of the innovation are to create long-term conditions for increasing the transparency and predictability of the foreign exchange market and reduce the possibility of currency speculation.