The volume of sale of foreign currency by the National Bank from July 4 to July 8 amounted to $969.8 million. For comparison, last week this figure was at the level of $985.6 million, and two weeks ago - $933.0. This is discussed on the website of the NBU.

It is specified that in five days he acquired $7.6 million, which is in the range of volumes of the last eight weeks (from $5.5 to $8.3 million).

That is, the net sale of foreign currency amounted to $ 962.2 million - this is the fourth largest volume of weekly interventions since the beginning of the war..

In general, from the beginning of the year to July 8, inclusive, the National Bank purchased $1 billion 862.2 million and EUR111.0 million on the market, and sold $14 billion 111.5 million and EUR1 billion 789.1 million.

Since the beginning of the war, the purchase of foreign currency amounted to $1 billion 205.3 million and EUR111.0 million, and the sale of $11 billion 341.3 million and EUR1 billion 789.1 million.

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It was reported that import privileges were canceled from July 1, thanks to which the National Bank canceled restrictions on the sale of foreign currency when importing goods from July 9 and increased the period for returning foreign exchange earnings from 120 to 180 days.

At the same time, from July 11, in order to reduce pressure on the foreign exchange market, the NBU reduced the period for using the currency purchased for settlements by residents from 10 to two business days.

In addition, the state-owned PrivatBank, Sberbank and Monobank, which are among the largest cards in terms of issuance of cards, on July 6-7 increased the currency selling rate on cards to the rate on the cash market, or by about 7-8%, in order to also reduce pressure on the hryvnia..