OREANDA-NEWS  Dollar futures (SI) on the Moscow Stock Exchange on Monday opened trading with a sharp decline compared to last week's close, falling by more than 8.26% in one minute, and then regained losses, RBC reported, citing trading data on the TradingView site.

The drop occurred not only on the chart of the nearest June futures, but also on the later ones, for example, in September and December. Futures for the euro also fell at this time, but not as noticeably as for the dollar.

By 11:30 a.m., futures were already trading at 79,577 (at 79.6 rubles per dollar, which corresponds to a decrease of 0.54% by Friday's close).

At the end of March, during a telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, the Moscow Stock Exchange also recorded an unusual case when an unknown bidder twice provoked a sharp decline in the Russian market: during and immediately after the negotiations, the Moscow Exchange index showed a drop of more than 1% within a minute, followed by a The same rapid growth.