Trading foreign exchange in September rose by 15.2%
Turnover of non-cash foreign exchange transactions in September 2013 amounted to the equivalent of 3197 million ($ 4.1 billion), an increase of 15.2% on the month. Just 9 months of this year exchange turnover amounted to 27.7 billion manat. Compared to the same period last year, it increased 16.8 %.
The volume of cash transactions in U.S. dollars in September was $ 1,037 million is for $ 69 million or 7.1 % more than in August . During the reporting period the volume of purchases of the currency increased by 29.3%, while sales decreased by 0.3 %. Compared to the same period of 2012 in January-September this year, the total turnover of the cash exchange operations with U.S. currency rose by $ 315 million or 3.6 % to $ 9,006 million.
The volume of transactions with euro cash for the nine months 2013 amounted to 2549 million (in units of the relevant currency) , which is 38.4 percent more than last year .
The total turnover of the cash exchange operations in January-September this year with the Russian ruble and the British pound was equal to 12,566 million, respectively, and 50 million.
Average exchange rate of U.S. dollar cash to manat in September decreased by 1 point , and for the past 12 months - by 13 basis points to 0.7844 AZN for 1 USD. - 15B-
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