Electronic scoreboard with dollar sign. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 21 In the second decade of the month, large companies pay taxes and sell foreign currency to pay salaries. Financiers and analysts single out this period of time as a marker for the purchase and sale of currency, a professor at the Department of Economic Theory of the Russian University of Economics named after V.I. G.V. Plekhanova Maya Dubovik. In addition, the expert recalls, interbank trading is resumed at the beginning of the week, affecting the dollar/ruble exchange rate. And by the middle of the week, the rate reaches a peak — the best moment to sell the currency. «There is a depreciation in the second half of Thursday and the first half of Friday, and this is the best time to buy the currency,» Dubovik notes. She advises paying attention to the spread when buying dollars bank, the difference between buying and selling from a financial institution should not exceed two percent.
