Central bank: Ukrainians sell $1.5 bln more than they purchase

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During the said period, the population sold in banks $964 million, while buying $749 million, the central bank reported on its website.

According to the NBU, since yea-start, the sale of currency by the population through banks exceeded its purchase by $1.539 billion.

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As UNIAN reported earlier, in August, Ukrainians updated the record high of currency purchases through the banking system from the beginning of 2015, recorded a month earlier, buying currency worth $1.045 billion.

Net sales of cash foreign currency by the population through the Ukrainian banking system in 2017 amounted to $2.4 billion.