moscow oct 20 reuters  the rouble traded steady on thursday with a favourable monthend tax period supporting the russian currency amid volatility on oil markets and the constant threat of geopolitical and sanctions risk over the conflict in ukraine at 0803 gmt the rouble was 01 stronger against the dollar at 6166 and was unchanged at 6037 versus the euro  it had shed 01 against the yuan to 847  we expect the moderate strengthening of the russian currency to continue said alor broker in a note the rouble is buttressed by a monthend tax period that usually sees exportfocused firms convert foreign exchange revenues into roubles to pay domestic tax liabilities the main pointer for the market in the coming days remains the large tax payments before the end of which it will likely be hard for the dollar to recover its position above 62 to the rouble said veles capital analysts brent crude oil  a global benchmark for russias main export was up 14 at 937 a barrel amid major uncertainty in russia no clear trend is yet visible said bcs global markets expecting consolidation to continue russian stock indexes were recovering some of the ground lost in the previous session the dollardenominated rts index irts was up 15 to 10252 points the roublebased moex russian index imoex was 14 higher at 20065 points