NBU over week spends over $143 mln on maintaining hryvnia rate

During the reporting period, the regulator bought no foreign currency.

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The National Bank of Ukraine this week – from January 27 to January 31 – spent $143.5 million from reserves to support the hryvnia on the interbank foreign exchange market, according to the central bank's report.

The regulator bought no foreign currency over the reporting period.

According to the data published on the NBU website, since year-start, foreign currency purchases by the National Bank on the interbank market has remained $98 million above sales.

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As UNIAN reported earlier, in 2019, the National Bank of Ukraine replenished foreign reserves through the purchase of $7.933 billion in foreign currency on the interbank forex market.

Ukraine's international reserves in 2019 grew by 22%, up to $25.3 billion.

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