Hryvnia quotes to the dollar in mid-January have shifted to the downside / Photo from UNIAN
There are no significant factors for the development of the economic situation in Ukraine, which would provoke noticeable exchange rate fluctuations, Minister of Finance of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko has told the reporters on Friday.
"I see no significant new macro-economic factors to change [the exchange rate of] the hryvnia. But there are general factors," said the head of the Ministry of Finance.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the hryvnia quotations against the U.S. dollar in mid-January have shifted to the downside - to UAH 24-25 / USD, while cash market and black market rates have reached UAH 26-27 / USD. To stabilize the rate, the regulator has tightened the currency purchase rules for businesses, as well as held the auctions on the interbank market, having sold $120 million worth of foreign currency.
Read alsoUkraine to borrow almost UAH 218 bln in 2016 to prop up budgetAccording to Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriya Gontareva, fluctuations of the hryvnia exchange rate against foreign currencies in the last month were due to a seasonal drop in economic activity, a large number of days off in January, as well as the payment in December 2015 of UAH 30 billion from a single treasury account, and the political instability in the recent days.