National Bank strengthens official forex rate to UAH 27.20 to dollar for April 1

Since early March, UAH has slid 1.3% against USD, at the same time climbing 0.3% against EUR .

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The National Bank of Ukraine on Friday evening strengthened the official hryvnia exchange rate by four kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 26.20 to the dollar.

The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for April 1:

US$100 costs UAH 2720.9103 (UAH 2,724.8765 as of March 29);

EUR 100 costs UAH 3056.9427 (UAH 3,056.7665 as of March 29);

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Taking into account the established official rate, the hryvnia has fallen against the U.S. dollar by 1.3%, but rose against the euro by 0.3% since the beginning of March.

As UNIAN, reported earlier, last Friday, hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market by the close of trade settled at UAH 27.28/27.33 to the dollar.

Hryvnia quotes against the euro settled at UAH 30.62/30.68.

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