Net sales of dollars by the National Bank decreased this week to $532.4 million from $695.1 million a week earlier. This is evidenced by the regulator's data.
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Like a week ago, there was no purchase of foreign currency by the National Bank.
< p>The official hryvnia exchange rate, after reaching a new low of 39.7879 UAH/$1 last week, at the end of this week strengthened by almost 19 kopecks – to 39.6015 UAH/$1.
On the cash market, the dollar also fell in price over the week by about 20 kopecks – to 39.87 UAH/$1.
As the data shows, from Monday to Wednesday, the negative balance between the volume of currency purchases by the population and its sales increased from $9.8 million to $33.1 million, however, on Thursday it decreased to $29.2 million.
At the end of March, the NBU’s net sales increased to $1.788 billion from $1.5 in February, however, taking into account the jump in external receipts to a record level of almost $9 billion, international reserves increased in March by 18% to a record level of $43.76 billion.
Since the beginning of April, the NBU’s net sales have already reached $2.06 billion, however, on April 25, the National Bank raised the forecast for Ukraine’s international reserves at the end of 2024 to $43.4 billion from $40.4 billion
