OREANDA-NEWS. September 26, 2008. Such opinion was expressed by the president of NBM Leonid Talmaci, presenting the information on situation at monetary and currency market to the parliament.

As he said, strengthening of lei to dollar limits rise in prices for power resources that leads to inflation restraint.

Besides, it allows reducing prices for the imported equipment, prices for raw materials used in production intended for export, as well as prices for the import goods. The president of NBM has noted that tendency of strengthening the national currency in relation to dollar is characteristic for many countries of the region and in some of them this strengthening is much bigger than in Moldova.

As Leonid Talmaci noted, in I half of 2008 in relation to dollar lei has strengthened by 43 %, while Polish zloty strengthened by 17,5 % and the Czech crone- by 52 %, respectively.