The analyst did not rule out the growth of the Moscow Exchange Index

The Moscow Exchange index may return to the level of 3000-3200 points, according to Alina Poptsova, stock market analyst at Alfa Capital Management Company. She told "Izvestia" about it, specifying that thus the index will grow by 24-30%.

Currently, according to the trading floor, the index is at the level of 2638 points.

According to the expert, next year the dynamics in the domestic stock market will be determined by the geopolitical situation and the situation with anti-Russian restrictions.

At the same time, she did not rule out that the process of inflation reduction will not be fast, which will require the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) to maintain a high rate level. Reduction of the key rate is not expected before the second half of the year, the analyst believes. At the same time, stabilization of the index and completion of monetary policy tightening (MPT) may create conditions for market growth in anticipation of future easing of the regulator's policy.

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Earlier, on December 17, the Moscow Exchange index fell below 2,400 points for the first time since March 2023. As Mikhail Zeltser, a stock market expert at BKS Investment World, explained to Izvestia, this happened against the backdrop of the Central Bank's ultra-tight MPC.

Before that, on November 27, Nikolay Vavilov, a specialist of TR's Strategic Research Department, suggested that by the end of the current year, the MosBirch index may approach the values of October 2022 and show a mark at the level of 2 thousand points.