OREANDA-NEWS. April 05, 2010. The Belarusian Currency & Stock Exchange (BCSE) informs about the foreign currency trade totals for Q1 2010.

The Q1 turnover amounted to BYR 12 010.5 bn (BYR 11 544.0 bn in Q4 2009). The Q2 trade volume increased 4.0 % compared to Q4 2009.

USD 2 258.6 m, RUB 19 309.3 m, EUR 871.5 m and other currency amounting to Br 18.5 bn in equivalent were sold at the trades in Q2.

The unit weight of foreign currency in the trade volume was USD – 54.8%, RUB – 15.7%, EUR – 29.3%, and other currencies –0.2 %.

Average daily transaction volume amounted to USD 38.9 m, RUB 351.1 m and                      EUR 14.5 m.

The Q1 quotations changed as follows: RUB +4.73 points, USD +119.00 points, EUR -106.00 points.

Тable 1. foreign currency trade totals in Q1 2010

Currency

Quotations

Demand

Supply

Trade volume

Trade volume

in thousands

in thousands

in thousands

Br in millions

Russian rouble

55

18 281 214

18 799 808

19 309 320

1 884 891.589

US Dollar

58

2 251 972

1 440 526

2 258 548

6 582 531.189

Euro

60

825 605

585 099

871 456

3 524 556.546

Swedish Krona

10

948

1 172

1 172

479.525

Swiss Frank

37

2 537

6 021

6 229

17 168.674

GB Pound

25

115

88

112

513.619

Zloty

14

288

28

293

310.236

Yen

2

18

182

182

5.947

Тable 2. top 10 foreign currency trade participants according to the transaction volume conducted at the bcse in Q2 2008.

Rate

Trade parti­cipant

 

National Bank

 

Savings Bank Belarusbank

 

Priorbank

 

Belagroprombank

 

Belrosbank

 

Bank VTB (Belarus)

 

Bank Moscow-Minsk

 

Alfa-bank

 

Belinvestbank

 

BPS-bank