OREANDA-NEWS  The US dollar and the yuan are stable on the Moscow Stock Exchange at the start of trading on Wednesday morning, the ruble does not show bright dynamics in anticipation of new incentives to move.

According to the results of the first minute of trading, the US dollar exchange rate was 60.685 rubles/$1 (+0.25 kopecks to the level of the previous close). At the same time, the dollar turned out to be 2.84 kopecks higher than the current official exchange rate.

By this time, the Chinese yuan had declined on the Moscow Exchange by 0.6 kopecks to 8,464 rubles.

According to Interfax-CEA experts, the stability of the ruble is due to the lack of bright signals: oil prices fluctuate slightly, global capital markets are mostly in a slight plus, with the exception of the American one, which closed with a noticeable increase - by more than 1% - as investors await the publication of the minutes of the November meeting of the Federal Reserve System (FRS). At the same time, a decrease in market activity is expected in the second half of the week due to Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the United States.

The minutes of the Fed meeting will be released on Wednesday evening. At the last meeting, the Fed once again increased the rate by 75 basis points and hinted at the possibility of slowing the pace of its rise at subsequent meetings.

On Monday, the heads of the Federal Reserve Banks (FRB) of Cleveland and San Francisco, Loretta Mester and Mary Daly, made it clear that the Fed will slow down the pace of interest rate hikes next month, while stressing that the need for further policy tightening remains.

Stock indexes of the largest countries in the Asia-Pacific region are mostly growing at morning trading on Wednesday: Japan's Nikkei 225 is up 0.61%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng is up 0.34%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index is up 0.61%, South Korea's Kospi is up 0.61%, only China's CSI 300 is down by 0.36%. Futures for the US S&P 500 index are down by 0.06%.

The cost of January Brent crude futures on the London ICE Futures exchange by 7:01 Moscow time was $88.29 per barrel, which is 0.08% lower than the closing price of the previous session. The price of WTI crude oil futures for January at electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) by this time amounted to $80.9 per barrel, which is 0.06% lower than the final value of the previous session.