OREANDA-NEWS. January 22, 2015. NBM intervened to cover the gap between the demand and supply of forex, a press release of the regulator informs.

In particular, in December 2014, economic entities’ net demand for foreign currency was covered by the net supply from individuals 33.6% against 33.9% reported for November 2014 and 88.8% reported fro December 2013. According to NBM, in December 2014, the net demand and the net supply decreased month-on-month by 17% to USD 223.5 million and by 17.7% to USD 75.1 million respectively.

Under these conditions NBM covered the gap by selling foreign currency at an amount of USD 156.4 million. As a result, the average exchange rate of MDL against USD in December declined 3.3% against November.

The structure of the net currency supply from individuals included the 51.2% share of RUB (against 47.9% in November 2014), which was followed by EUR – 38.5% against 36.6% and USD – 8.7% against 14.3%.