Azerbaijani Commercial Banks Buy Half of Currency Offered
SOFAZ and the Central Bank offered to the foreign exchange auction a total of $ 150 million ($ 100 million and $ 50 million, respectively), according to the Central Bank.
Twenty commercial banks purchased 70.2 million dollars.
Note that in early September the State Oil Fund and the Central Bank by major interventions in the foreign exchange market eliminated the foreign currency deficit, which slowed down increase in the US dollar rate. -----71D
Economics
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