Kazakhstan closed currency exchange – RBC

Most of exchange offices in Almaty are closed, reports Tengrinews. Correspondent publications managed to find in the former capital of only one working exchanger.

This currency exchange accumulated a large number of people, but he soon also closed, the newspaper writes. “People were standing in line, trying to exchange tenge. However, the dollar and the euro was not, and Almaty residents buy rubles, “- said Tengrinews.

Kazakhstan on Thursday moved to a free floating exchange rate. The average weighted rate of KZT on Thursday at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) fell by 26%, reaching a value of 256 tenge / dollar.

The fact that the sale of dollar in Kazakhstan suspended, also writes Interfax. According to the agency, foreign exchange operations suspended, including commercial banks, some banks have closed sites. Do not operate equipment stores and sites, the closure of some trading houses.

Currently, the site is not available the country’s largest commercial bank – Kazkommertsbank. The press service of the bank told Interfax that “there is no information on the course,” as soon as it appears, the site will open.

According to business publication Kapital.kz, in Alma-Ata is currently difficult to buy euro and rubles.

In one of the largest cities of Aktau in Kazakhstan, according to media reports, do not sell any dollars or rubles or euros. The local edition of “Lada” refers to employees of banks and exchangers, who said that currency exchange allegedly stopped until further notice from the bank’s head office.

According to Tengrinews, the selling rate of dollar in Kazakhstan commercial banks and exchange offices Thursday afternoon reached 259 tenge (more than 60 tenge longer selling rate on Wednesday).

According to the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov, the introduction of floating exchange rate of tenge will allow to fill the budget losses. He stated this at a press conference. According to him, x udshie times can still occur, so the government will not use the additional resources from the National Fund. “With regard to the national fund, we believe that the worst of times can still occur, so additional resources from the National Fund, we are not going to choose. National Trust us another useful “- quoted by his agency” News – Kazakhstan ».