Currency market started October with dollar growth

Currency market started October with dollar growth
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On the first day of October on the interbank currency market, demand for non-cash currency is growing again. Among the main buyers are banks replenishing their currency position by buying currency for further sale to retail clients.

Quotes for non-cash dollar by 13:00 rose from 44.62 to 44.885 UAH, i.e. by 26.5 kopecks. The National Bank began daily interventions almost immediately after trading started, but the dollar is still rising in price.

The euro on the interbank currency market of Ukraine on Thursday is traded in the range of 50.49-50.70 UAH on the bid side - 15-20 kopecks cheaper than yesterday's prices. On the international FOREX market, the euro sharply went down and by the time of writing the article fell to 1.12653 dollars. In parallel, other leading world currencies are falling against the dollar.

Price tags for cash dollar in the capital are growing again. If yesterday in Kyiv wholesale exchange points were selling dollars at 44.82-44.84 UAH, today - at 44.83-44.86 UAH. At the same time, according to operators of the cash currency market, demand remains at the same level. In Poltava dollars are sold at 44.90 UAH, in Dnipro – at 44.93 UAH, in Odesa and Kharkiv – at 45.00 UAH exactly.

Ukrainian banks by 13:00 sell dollars at prices from 44.85 UAH in the Kyiv branch of Poltava-Bank to 45.34 UAH in Zaporizhzhia Metabank. As for the euro, currently the cheapest can be bought at 50.89 UAH in Credit Agricole Bank.

Oil prices on Thursday rose again. In particular, the popular Brent brand today rose above 100 dollars per barrel and is currently trading in the range of $100.01-100.20 per barrel.

On crypto exchanges, there is some stabilization of prices for major cryptocurrencies after sharp fluctuations in previous days. Thus, bitcoin (BTC) on the most popular crypto exchange Binance today trades in the range of $83,186 - 84,420 per coin, and ethereum (ETH) – $2,673 - 2,722 per coin.