Today (15 February), the Central Bank held a regular currency auction, which offered commercial banks 200 million US dollars.
The CBA reports that 10 banks participated in the auction. They requested for the purchase of $ 32.1 million. The applications were fully satisfied.
$ 153.6 million was sold at auctions from February 1 to 15.
CBA currency auctions are held after the announcement of the AZN floating rate regime on December 21, 2015. Only in January the foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank reduced by $618.2 million and amounted to $ 4,398.5 million by early February. -------08B
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