Acquisitions of euros in the last month of 2012 increased more than 10 times

Turnover of non-cash foreign exchange transactions in December 2012 amounted to the equivalent of 3,817 million ($ 4.86 billion), an increase of 25% on the month. In just 12 months of this year, foreign exchange turnover stood at 33.44 billion manats. Compared to the same period last year, it increased 32.2%.

In December of the current share trading with the U.S. dollar was 27%. Share of the operations with the Russian ruble fell to 26.4%, while the share of the euro in the market fell to 12.3%.

The volume of cash transactions in U.S. dollars in December was $ 1,031 million, which is $ 9 million or 0.9% more than in November. During the reported month the volume of purchases of the currency fell by 5.7%. Compared to the same period in 2011, January-December of this year, the total turnover of cash exchange operations with the U.S. currency rose by $ 3,377 million or 40.3% to $ 11,765 million.

The volume of cash transactions euro twelve months of 2012 amounted to 2,840 million (units of the currency), which is 77.5 percent more than last year. The volume of purchases of the currency population grew in December, 10.3 times to 135 million

The total turnover of cash exchange operations in January-December of this year with the Russian ruble and the British pound sterling was equal to 9,911 million and 31 million, respectively.

The average exchange rate of cash dollar to manat fell in December by 2 points, and over the past 12 months - by 20 basis points to 0.7849 AZN for 1 USD. - 15B -