The Russian stock market has been opened with a drop in major stock indexes on Thursday, November 18. The Moscow Exchange index at the opening of the main trading session on the exchange fell to 4120.81 points (minus 0.68 percent), the RTS index – to 1788.34 points (minus 0.79 percent).

At 10:05 am, only 2 from 15 “blue chip” companies were in positive territory – Norilsk Nickel (plus 0.17 percent, to 22,570 rubles per share) and MTS (plus 0.02 percent, to 312.55 rubles). The most depreciated were TCS Group (minus 1.07 percent, to 7164.4 rubles), Lukoil (minus 1.04 percent, to 6813 rubles) and Tatneft (minus 0.66 percent, to 526.1 rubles).