Hryvnia official rate strengthens after record fall

The Ukrainian currency the hryvnia staged a fight back on the interbank market on Thursday, clawing back 46 kopiykas, according to information on the official Web site of the National Bank of Ukraine.

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As of 1400 the central bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies:

$100 – UAH 2,509.9142 (as of 1400 on February 11 it was UAH 2,555.8067);

EUR 100 – UAH 2,839.7169 (as of 1400 on February 11 it was UAH 2,887.2948);

10 Russian rubles – UAH 3.7995 (as of 1400 on February 11 it was UAH 3.9052).

As UNIAN reported earlier, the National Bank of Ukraine at 1400 on Wednesday set the hryvnia exchange rate at UAH 25.5581 to the dollar, or 60 kopiykas lower than the last historic low rate of UAH 24.9562 set by the NBU on February 9.

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