The dollar approached a new mark on the interbank market, despite NBU interventions

On Thursday, September 3, quotes on the interbank currency market continued to rise and by the time of writing reached 44.79 UAH on the “bid” position. The National Bank continues to actively conduct currency interventions: at the time of writing, deals worth 212 million dollars had passed through Bloomberg.

For the second day in a row, the dollar exchange rate has been rising on the interbank market, and now everyone is interested in whether the 45 UAH level will hold this time, or in September they will cross it and go further.

The euro on the interbank currency market of Ukraine on Wednesday Thursday synchronously with the dollar and has already risen from 51.71 to 51.98 UAH on the “bid” position. On the international currency market FOREX, the euro is going up today after two days of decline, which also puts pressure on the euro exchange rate in Ukraine.

Prices for cash dollars are going up, reacting to the growth of the non-cash dollar exchange rate. If yesterday wholesale exchange offices in Kyiv sold the dollar at 44.78-44.80 UAH, today at lunchtime – at 44.86 UAH. In Vinnytsia the dollar is sold at 44.86 UAH, in Kharkiv – at 44.88 UAH, in Poltava and Dnipro – at 44.90 UAH. At the same time, cash currency market operators report to the “Kurs Ukrainy” portal that no significant increase in demand from the population has been observed yet.

Ukrainian banks by 12:30 sell the dollar at prices from 44.79 UAH in Kreditvest Bank to 45.15 UAH in Zaporizhzhia Metbank. As for the euro, at the moment it can be purchased cheapest at 51.85 UAH in Oxi Bank.

Oil prices decided to take a pause and temporarily stopped growing, despite the ongoing tension in the Middle East and new attacks by Iran on American bases in Kuwait and the UAE. The price of the popular Brent brand by the time of writing yesterday rose to $96.97 per barrel. Currently, Brent is trading in the range of $95.90-96.40 per barrel.

On crypto exchanges, prices for major cryptocurrencies have also stopped falling and are trying to grow again. Thus, bitcoin (BTC) on the popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance yesterday fell to $76,264 per coin, and ethereum (ETH) – to $2356.41 per coin. Currently, bitcoin is sold at $77,650-77,680 per coin, and ethereum – at $2,395-2,400 per coin.