According to the specialist, the exchange rate of the dollar and the ruble is now "actively responding to rhetoric."
“Just the other day, the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank announced that they were starting to simultaneously sell foreign currency on the market ... This means that the volume of foreign currency will increase and the currency is not in short supply, and if there is no shortage, then the cost is less.
While this is only a rhetorical statement, there have been no steps in this direction.
But since the Ministry of Finance has announced and the Central Bank has supported, then currency trading will resume, ”explained Ostapkovich.
But, in his opinion, the volume of foreign exchange sales by the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance will be small, so there will be no serious fall in rates.
In turn, the expert considers the current decline in the value of the dollar only an "instant correction."
“It will last a week and a half, a maximum of three.
Then the dollar will again go to the area of 70 rubles and above.
Because the upward trend of the dollar is obvious and it is almost impossible to interrupt it in the current situation, ”concluded the interlocutor of RT.
As reported, on January 12, the dollar fell below 68 rubles.