OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2011. The spot-turnover at the Bank Interbank Currency Exchange (BBVB) has declined 4.88 against last week’s indicators. This year’s turnover has already exceeded last year’s turnover by 26.3% and reached USD 1 bn per year for the first time since 2009.

BBVB reports that for 19-23 December 2011 turnover of the BBVB Bourse E-System of Trades (BEST) on spot operations in US dollars made up USD 9.8 million against USD 47.995 million a week earlier and USD 108.76 million (this year’s record of weekly turnover) on 18-22 April 2011. The best trade week of 2010 was registered for 29 November - 3 December (USD 80.88 million) and for the entire history for 16-19 March 2009 (USD 276.588 million).

This December BEST turnover on spot-deals still makes USD 113.558 million versus USD 92.47 million in November, USD 112.755 million in October, USD 57.545 million in September, USD 47.755 million in August, USD 58.415 million in July, USD 90.88 million in June, USD 53.407 million in May, USD 157.3 million in April (still this year’s best indicator), USD 114.58 million in March, USD 138.58 million in February (this year’s still best index), USD 78.88 million in January, USD 139.5 million in December 2010, USD 165.79 million in November (the best indicator for 2010), USD 711.456 million in March (a monthly turnover record for the Exchange’s whole history), USD 439.087 million in June 2008 (earlier best turnover for BEST entire history), the 2007 record of USD 310.3 million in July, BBVB 2006 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 2011 spot transaction turnover on US dollar still makes USD 1.115 bn versus USD 883.569 million in 2010, 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. Turnover on SWAP-deals for 2011 is still lacking and for 2010 it totaled USD 34 million against their turnover of USD 260.4 million in 2009 when the best index a month was registered in April (USD 67.4 million).

During the finished workweek of 2011 the following deals were concluded at BEST with valuation on the same day (T+0): on 19 December the turnover totaled USD 6.01 million (rate: AZN/USD 0.7862), on 20 December - USD 2.075 million (rate: AZN/USD 0.7862), on 21 December - USD 240,000 (rate: AZN/USD 0.7862), on 22 December USD 1.506 million (rate: AZN/USD 0.7862), on 23 December no deals were concluded.

Turnover for 30 November (USD 55.8 million) was the best indicator per trading day in 2010 and turnover for 5 June 2008 (USD 143.749 million) is the best for entire history of BEST system and turnover of exchange per trading day, but on 13 March BEST spot turnover (USD 134.353 million) and swap-deals (USD 24 million) made USD 158.353 million - a new absolute record. Best spot-turnover for a week was registered on 2-6 June 2008 - USD 282.974 million. Best spot-turnover in 2009 per day was registered on 17 March - USD 121.799 million.