ArmInfo. The currency interbank of Armenia reduced volumes by 77.4% from April 3 to 7, after rising by 89% the previous week. At the same time, players in the intra-bank foreign exchange market more actively sold euro, while reducing interest in buying this currency and dollar and ruble transactions, while a week earlier there was a high activity of buying and selling dollars, euros and rubles. Exchange market since the beginning of the year to this day is empty. As a result, AMD against the dollar changed its mood from strengthening to devaluation - from 480.3 to 481 AMD / $ 1, becoming slowly strengthened to the euro from 592 to 591 AMD / 1evro and to the ruble - from 8.4 to 8.3 AMD / ruble . A year earlier, on April 7, 2017, the exchange rate of the dram to the dollar was 485.5 AMD / $ 1, to the euro - 518 AMD / 1evro, and to the ruble - 8.6 AMD / ruble, which, in comparison with the current rates, indicates the annual devaluation of the dram to euro, at revaluation to the dollar and to the ruble.
According to the press service of the Armenian Central Bank, on April 3-7, inclusive, transactions in the volume of $ 4.4 million were made at the average interbank rate at a weighted average rate of 480.80 AMD / $ 1 (against 480.50 AMD / $ 1 a week earlier). Moreover, during the week transactions were made on a daily basis in the currency interbank market (instead of April 2, the working day was postponed to April 7), but the maximum volume was fixed on Saturday - $ 1.6 million. In parallel, on the intra-bank foreign exchange market, dollar buying slowed growth from 11.7 % to 2.7%, with a decline in sales dynamics from 61.1% growth to a 20.6% decline, euro buying changed the trend from a 25.7% growth to a 11.4% decline in acceleration sales growth from 18.3% to 22.6%, ruble buying slid from a 20.3% increase to a 2.6% decline with a slowdown in sales growth from 25.3% to 6.6%. As a result, $ 92.4 million was purchased at the average exchange rate of 479.72 AMD / $ 1, 7.8 million euro at the average rate of 588.20 AMD / 1EUR, and 987.4 million rubles. at the average rate of 8.29 AMD / 1RUR, and sold $ 92.2 million at an average rate of 480.96 AMD / $ 1, 20.6 million euro at an average rate of 591.50 AMD / 1EUR, and 677.3 million rubles at the average rate of 8.38 AMD / 1RUR.
According to the source, from March 26 to 31, Armenian banks issued AMD 60.4 billion in AMD loans and $ 87.1 million in dollar loans. In comparison with the previous period (March 19-24), AMD banks changed the trend from a 26.9% decline to 11.4% growth, and dollar, slowed growth from 47.8% to 27%.
