The average exchange rate is expected at UAH 28.46 to the dollar, which is better than the projected rate in the second quarter of 2017 at UAH 28.68 to the dollar, according to the survey.
At the same time, the share of respondents expecting that the hryvnia rate will not exceed UAH 27 to the dollar in the next 12 months increased from 14.8% in the Q2 2017 to 21.1%.
During the survey, the weighted average rate of the hryvnia in the interbank forex market was UAH 25.63 to the dollar, while its daily fluctuations did not exceed 1.8% of the average value.
Read alsoFitch predicts Ukraine's GDP growth by 2-3% in 2017-2018As UNIAN reported earlier, the increased demand for currency in the Ukrainian interbank forex market since late August 2017 forced the NBU, after almost a two-month pause, to intervene in September when the regulator spent about $166 million to support the hryvnia.
The state budget of Ukraine for 2017 assumes the average annual rate of hryvnia at the level of about UAH 27 to the dollar.
Hryvnia's historic low against the U.S. dollar was at UAH 30.01/USD in February 2015.
