Hryvnia updates four-year maximum at UAH 23.50 per U.S. dollar set for Dec 16

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) set the official forex rate of the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar for Monday, December 16, at UAH 23.50 per U.S. dollar, which was the maximum indicator since January 2016, or almost in four years.

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The previous four-year maximum was set at UAH 23.56 per U.S. dollar on December 13, according to the NBU website.

The official forex rate against the euro for Monday is UAH 26.26 per euro.

As UNIAN reported earlier, trade on Ukraine's interbank forex market on Friday, December 13, closed at UAH 23.49/23.50 per U.S. dollar, while the hryvnia quotations to the euro were at UAH 26.18/26.19.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine's national currency in November 2019 strengthened by 3.4% against the U.S. dollar. The hryvnia has also strengthened by 13.4% since the beginning of the year, to UAH 23.97 per U.S. dollar.