Buyers are waiting for the National Bank: the dollar continued to rise on the interbank market.

On Friday, August 14, quotations of the non-cash dollar on the interbank currency market immediately after the opening of trading went up and by the time of writing this article reached 44.751 UAH at the "bid" position.

According to information from the portal "Kurs Ukrainy", transactions are taking place without the participation of the National Bank, which has taken a wait-and-see position. Activity of both buyers and sellers is relatively low. Buyers are waiting for the National Bank, hoping that it will sell cheaper, and sellers are simply waiting for the exchange rate to rise even higher.

The euro on the interbank currency market of Ukraine on Friday is growing following the growth of the cross rate of the euro/dollar on the international FOREX currency market and has already risen from 51.52 to 51.70 UAH at the "bid" position. On FOREX, the euro rose from 1.1524 to 1.1557 dollars.

Price tags for cash dollar have slightly increased over the past day. If yesterday afternoon wholesale exchange points of Kyiv sold the dollar at 44.84-44.86 UAH, today – already at 44.88-44.90 UAH. In Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Khmelnytskyi dollar today is sold at 44.90 UAH and more expensive.

Ukrainian banks by 12:30 sell the dollar at a price from 44.82 UAH at Bank Lviv to 45.27 UAH at Zaporizhzhia Metabank. As for the euro, currently it can be purchased cheapest at Universalbank at 51.80 UAH.

Oil prices have stopped moving and fluctuate in a narrow range. In particular, the price of the most popular brand Brent is trading today in the range of $86.50-88.60 per barrel.

On crypto exchanges, prices of the main cryptocurrencies went down. Bitcoin on the most popular crypto exchange Binance on Friday morning dropped to $62,700 per coin, and Ethereum – to $1863.6 per coin. Currently, bitcoin is sold at $62,790 - 62,810, and Ethereum – at $1870-1875 per coin.