National Bank boosts reserves by $300 mln in Aug

In August, the National Bank of Ukraine bought $316 million in the interbank foreign exchange market, or $300 million more than it sold.

The figures for net currency purchase in the interbank market for August are 75% lower than in the previous month, when the regulator bought a record volume of foreign currency in the amount of $1.271 billion, and did not sell any, reads the report published on the NBU website.

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It is also reported that since the beginning of the year, the purchase of foreign currency by the National Bank exceeded its sale by $2.978 billion.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine’s international reserves as of August 1 amounted to $21.84 billion, which is 5.8% higher than as of early July.