OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2010. Turnover of Bourse E-system of trades (BEST) of the Bank Interbank Currency Exchange (BBVB) totaled USD 23.878 million on spot operations in US dollars versus the 2009 best indicator on 18-22 January (USD 34.499 million) and the best week’s indicator in 2009 (16-19 March - USD 276.588 million), BBVB reported.

As a result, BEST turnover on spot-deals for January 2010 made USD 83.537 million versus USD 168.327 million in December, USD 711.456 million in March (a monthly turnover record for the exchange’s whole history), USD 439.087 million in June 2008 (best turnover for BEST entire history), the 2007 record of USD 310.3 million in July, BBVB entire history turnover record of USD 434.432 million in December 2006, the 2005 record of USD 108.781 million in September, the 2004 record of USD 97.59 million in March, the 2003 record of USD 100.428 million in December.

The 2010 spot transaction turnover on US dollar still makes USD 83.537 million versus USD 2.009 bn in 2009, USD 2.46 bn in 2008 (record for 15 years of activity of the exchange), USD 1.75 bn in 2007, USD 1.9 bn in 2006, the 2005 turnover of USD 813.284 million, the 2004 turnover record of USD 910.97 million and the 2003 turnover of USD 438.9 million.

No SWAP-deals have been concluded this year yet, but in 2009 their turnover totaled USD 260.4 million and the best indicator for month was registered in April (USD 67.4 million).

During the first workweek of 2010 only deals with valuation of currencies on the same day were concluded in BEST(T+0): on 25 January trading turnover totaled USD 3.467 million (rate: AZN 0.8032 to the US dollar); on 26 January USD 710,000 (rate: AZN 0.8032 to the US dollar), on 27 January USD 3.26 million (rate: AZN 0.8035 to the US dollar), on 28 January USD 16.4 million (rate: AZN 0.8026 to the US dollar), and on 29 January USD 28,000 (rate: AZN 0.8035 to the US dollar).

On 5 June 2008, turnover (USD 143.749 million) became the best for entire history of BEST and turnover of exchange per trading day. But on 13 March spot-transaction turnover (USD 134.353 million) and swap deals (USD 24 million) made USD 158.353 million – absolutely new record.

The best turnover per week was registered on 2-6 June 2008 - USD 282.974 million. The best turnover per day in 2009 was registered on 17 March - USD 121.799 million.

The average size of deal with valuation of currencies on the same day made USD 577,833 on 25 January, USD 355,000 on 26 January, USD 1.6 million on 27 January, USD 2.3 million on 28 January, and USD 28,000 on 29 January.