Record rise of non-cash dollar on the interbank currency market on Friday, October 23, instantly reflected on price tags for cash currency – both in wholesale exchange points and on bank branch boards. And if wholesalers still tried to be reasonable, setting selling prices for cash dollar, bankers were not particularly shy.
By Friday evening, cash dollar in wholesale exchange points of Kyiv was sold at 45.35 hryvnia – 16 kopecks higher than the day before. In one day the dollar rose more than for the whole week before. Regional centers were not far behind, though not all maintained price unity. In Lviv and Odesa, as in Kyiv, the dollar was ready to sell at 45.35 hryvnia. In Dnipro – at 45.40 hryvnia, and in Kharkiv – only at 45.49-45.50 hryvnia. And these are prices in wholesale exchange offices: on retail currency exchange boards, by evening the figures were much higher.
Ukrainian banks, slightly recovering from shock, decided to play safe: their selling price tags for cash currency on Friday evening led to gloomy thoughts. If the cheapest dollar was sold in Trust Capital Bank at 45.25 hryvnia (though availability of currency was under big question), the most expensive in Zaporizhzhia Metbank – at 45.90 hryvnia. In most banks by evening the dollar cost 45.50 hryvnia and above.
Cash euro did not lag behind. Even though in the world euro resumed its fall, in Ukraine its price also rose. By this evening minimum selling price for euro started from 50.90 hryvnia in Idea Bank, Ukrgasbank and Universalbank, while the most expensive euro was sold in Altbank for 51.40 hryvnia.
Just yesterday we wrote that there is no sharp growth on cash currency market. Today showed that everything can change in a couple of hours. What is the reason for such a sharp fall of hryvnia, who provoked it and who silently watched how hryvnia collapses? These are questions with no answers yet. But everything secret sooner or later becomes clear.
