The Russian stock market opened with a drop in the major stock indexes on Wednesday, November 3. The Moscow Exchange index at the opening of the main trading session on the stock exchange fell to 4192.14 points (minus 0.37 percent), the RTS index – to 1840.37 points (minus 0.57 percent).

The growth leaders of “blue chips” at 10:05 were TCS Group, “Polymetal” and Magnit. The securities of these companies rose in price by no more than 0.5 percent. Most of all, the shares of Lukoil, Gazprom and Rosneft fell in price. The fall did not exceed 0.8 percent.

The dollar exchange rate was 71.58 rubles (plus 0.05 rubles), the euro exchange rate was 82.91 rubles (plus 0.09 rubles). Bitcoin was trading at $62,894 per coin.