The Kazakh currency continues to lose ground: at the end of trading on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), the weighted average dollar rate stood at 454.14 tenge, gaining more than three tenge in a day, while the euro rose by nearly four tenge to 509.28 tenge, according to infohub.kz.
In the second half of this week, the dollar began to rise again in Kazakhstan. Yesterday, its exchange rate increased to 450.62 tenge.
Exchange offices in the country's major cities at 15:30 today, according to Kurs.kz, set the following buy and sell rates for cash dollars:
Astana: buy — 451 tenge, sell — 458 tenge;
Almaty: buy — from 449 to 454.6 tenge, sell — from 454.7 to 456 tenge;
Shymkent: buy — from 453.5 to 454.5 tenge, sell — from 455.5 to 457 tenge.
The euro also rose — by almost 4 tenge in a day. Its weighted average at 15:30 today is 509.28 tenge.
Meanwhile, exchange offices across the country set the following buy and sell rates for cash euros:
Astana: buy — from 502 to 503 tenge, sell — from 512 to 513 tenge;
Almaty: buy — from 499.5 to 508 tenge, sell — from 507 to 513 tenge;
Shymkent: buy — from 504 to 508 tenge, sell — from 509 to 515 tenge.
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