OREANDA-NEWS. March 15, 2010. Baku Interbank Currency Exchange’s turnover on US dollar spot transactions in BEST system still makes USD164.76 million for 2010. As the result, BEST turnover on spot-deals for March 2010 still makes USD 22.139 million versus USD 61.087 million in February, USD 83.537 million in January 2010, 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 164.76 million versus USD 2.009 bn in 2009, USD 2.46 bn in 2008 (record over all history 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 as 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 8 March no trading was carried out in connection with holiday; on 9 March trading turnover totaled USD 1.86 million (rate: AZN 0.8035 to the US dollar); on 10 March - USD 1.899 million (rate: AZN 0.8035 to the US dollar), on 11 March - USD 6.647 million (rate: AZN 0.8034 to the US dollar), on 12 March - USD 8.5 million (rate: AZN 0.8034 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 0 on 8 March, USD 91,300 on 9 March, USD 633,000 on 10 March, USD 2.215 million on 11 March, USD 4.25 million on 12 March.