Dollar exchange rate in Kyrgyzstan approaches 68 soms

09:09, 28 апреля 2017, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Tatyana KUDRYAVTSEVA

The dollar exchange rate in  regains its position after two-week fall and approaches 68 som mark. For a day, the currency has risen in price by other 30 tyiyns.

Since the beginning of the week, the currency has risen in price by 80 tyiyn. Today, the capital’s exchange offices and commercial banks buy the dollar for 67.3–67.5, and sell — for 67.7–67.8 soms. Nominal rate is 67, 2425 soms (growth for a day — 0.16 percent).

This week, the National Bank of the entered the currency market with an intervention to buy dollars for the third time in April. Since the beginning of the month, it has bought $ 16,160,000. The National Bank associated the currency drop with an increase in the number of remittances from migrants.