FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING FALLS.

Since the introductionof the soft peg for the ruble against foreign currencies, theweekly trading volume on the foreign currency exchange in Moscowhas dropped from $1 billion to $300 million, Deputy Premier AnatoliChubais told Segodnya July 20. He said that the declinereflected a decision by Russians to invest their rubles at homerather than convert them into foreign currency as quickly as possible.

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