ArmInfo. The currency interbank of Armenia from January 15 to 19 2018, compared with the previous week fell by 44.3%. Moreover, during the week the transactoions were made on a daily basis, but a large volume on the currency interbank market was "lit up" on Wednesday.
In parallel, the interest in buying up dollars and selling rubles against the background of a decline in euro transactions, selling dollars and buying up the ruble grew in the domestic forex market. The exchange currency market, after a silence in 2017 for seven months, was empty and in the first two business weeks of 2018.
As a result, AMD against USD continued to strengthen - from 483 to 481.5 AMD/USD1, accelerating the rate of devaluation to the euro - from 582 to 590 AMD/EUR1, while ceasing to weaken to the ruble and froze at 8.5 AMD/RUR1. A year earlier, on January 19, 2017, the exchange rate of the dram to the dollar was 487.5 AMD/USD1, to the euro - 519 AMD/EUR1, and to the ruble - 8.3 AMD/RUR1, which, in comparison with the current rates, indicates the annual devaluation of the dram to euro and ruble at revaluation to the dollar.