Kazakh tenge goes down noticeably against US dollar

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 28

By Rashid Shirinov – Trend:

The weighted average US dollar rate in the morning session of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on Dec. 28 amounted to 379.61 tenge, Trend reports citing the Kazakh media.

Thus, the national currency of Kazakhstan has depreciated by 5.57 tenge against the US dollar compared to the morning session of Dec. 27 (374.04 tenge per US dollar).

At today's morning trading session of the US dollar, the minimum rate was 377.5 tenge per US dollar and the maximum rate was 380.3 tenge, while the closing rate was 380 tenge per dollar.

The trading volume amounted to $85.75 million, while the number of currency transactions totaled 190.

Meanwhile, the official rate by the National Bank of Kazakhstan on Dec. 28 is 375.15 tenge per US dollar. In the exchange offices of Astana and Almaty, the maximum selling rate of the US currency is 382 tenge.