OREANDA-NEWS  In the period from July 7 to August 6, the sales of foreign currency by the Bank of Russia will decrease from the current 9.32 billion rubles to 4.82 billion, that is, almost twice. This conclusion follows from the statement of the Ministry of Finance on oil and gas revenues of the federal budget in June.

The agency expects that in July the volume of additional oil and gas revenues will drop to 147.3 billion rubles, while in June it turned out to be 24.1 billion lower than expected. Thus, in the coming month, the Ministry of Finance will transfer 5.4 billion rubles per day to the Central Bank for the purchase of foreign currency and gold.

At the same time, in the second half of the year, the regulator will sell currency in the amount of 0.58 billion rubles per day as part of compensation for the net investment of funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in authorized financial assets in the previous six months.

Since the Central Bank sold 4.62 billion rubles per day in the first half of the year, excluding the first four days of July, the cumulative daily purchase of currency by the regulator will change by less than 500 million rubles.

Earlier it was reported that in June, the volume of revenues from the sale of oil and gas increased to 683.6 billion rubles, which is 4.7 billion more than in May and 188.8 billion better than a year earlier.