UPDATE: Exchange switches Norilsk to discrete trade mode after jump

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MOSCOW, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- The Moscow Exchange switched the trade of Norilsk Nickel's shares to a discrete mode at 2:08 p.m., Moscow time, on Tuesday, after a more than 20% price rise within 10 minutes in a row.

Norilsk Nickel jumped by 14% earlier in the day on the back of a better mood of the global market participants.

On 2:53 p.m., the shares returned to a normal trade mode and grew by 16.2744% to 18,910 rubles.

(80.8815 – U.S. $1)

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