The head of the Moscow Exchange spoke about faith in Russian stocks

Since the beginning of 2026, Russian investors have added 1.8 trillion rubles to the domestic securities market, while bank deposits have been replenished by only 0.5 trillion. Chairman of the Board of the Moscow Exchange Viktor Zhidkov spoke about this, emphasizing that such a picture has been observed for the first time, Kommersant reports.

Including 195 billion rubles came to the stock market. Positive dynamics indicate investors' faith in upcoming growth, and objective signs also indicate this. Among them, the economist named certain signals of reducing geopolitical risks.

Zhidkov recalled that as of the fall of 2026, 60 percent of the turnover on the Moscow Exchange is provided by private investors. He expects that with a reduction in the Central Bank rate and the yield of alternative instruments, new funds that are currently in money market funds will flow into stocks and bonds.

For four months, the head of the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange, Sergei Shvetsov, noted that if earlier, in order to fulfill the requirements of the country's President Vladimir Putin to increase the capitalization of the stock market by 2030 to 66 percent of GDP, it was necessary to triple it, now it has to be increased fourfold.

“That is, we are moving very quickly, at a good pace, but, unfortunately, in the other direction,” he said. Since that moment, the Moscow Exchange index has lost more than 250 points, and is currently in the region of 2300 points.