Central bank buys USD 13 million with rate of MNT 2463

Economy
ooluun@montsame.mn
2017-01-31 16:01:15

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Today, Bank of Mongolia held its regular foreign exchange auction and bought USD13.0 million with a closing rate of MNT2463.00. In spot trade, Commercial banks bid weighted average rate of MNT2451.34 for USD6.1 million, asked weighted average rate of MNT2462.30 for USD20.5 million and bid weighted average rate of MNT351.28 for CNY43.0 million respectively.

In swap and forward trade, Bank of Mongolia received buying bid offers of USD2.5 million of MNT swap agreements and selling bid offers of USD29.5 million of USD swap agreements from commercial banks and the central bank bought USD9.5 million through USD swap agreements.