NBU cuts official exchange rate by six kopiykas

The National Bank of Ukraine on Friday has dropped the hryvnia official rate by six kopiykas, ending a recent run of strengthening the currency.

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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 2,161.6059 (as of 1400 on March 12 it was UAH 2,155.3929);

EUR 100 – UAH 2,294.1123 (as of 1400 on March 12 it was UAH 2,279.9746);

10 Russian rubles – UAH 3.5460 (as of 1400 on March 12 it was UAH 3.4387).

As reported earlier, hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Friday set at the level of UAH 21.54/21.70 to the dollar.

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