 Dollar Exchange Rate Jumps Again: How Small Businesses Can Protect Their Budget Without Complex Strategies Today, May 16, 2026, USD/RUB holds at 73.22, EUR/RUB at 85.15. It seems stable, but any entrepreneur working with imported components or raw materials knows: the exchange rate can swing 3-5% in a week, and margins collapse. What is usually advised? Hedging, forwards, foreign currency accounts. For micro-businesses, this often sounds like Greek — banks offer such instruments starting from amounts that small businesses can't even dream of. Reality is simpler: most entrepreneurs simply build in a 10-15% buffer into the price and pray. But that's not a strategy; it's a loss of competitiveness. There is another approach — not to guess the exchange rate, but to quickly recalculate the cost price with any movement. ASI Biont analyzes uploaded procurement data and shows how changes in USD/RUB or EUR/RUB affect specific items in your product range — in seconds, not hours of manual recalculation in Excel. No magical exchange rate predictions, just facts: the rate changed → here's the new cost price for these three items. Three simple steps for small businesses right now: check which of your supplies are tied to currency, recalculate the cost price at the current rate (73.22 for USD), and if the safety margin is less than 10% — consider a temporary buffer in rubles for the nearest purchase. Don't try to play the exchange rate; play on the speed of reaction.