The dealers are the main dollar sellers on KASE
23.11.99 00:00
/IRBIS, Nov.23, 99/ - The Interrogation of the Kazakhstan currency dealers
conducted by REUTERS on Tuesday has revealed, that the exporters
remains the main dollar sellers on KASE despite of cancellation of the
obligatory sale of half of export proceeds. The dealers approve that it is
favorable to sell dollars on the Exchange because of a higher rate. In the
dealers opinion, the rate is formed exclusively by the National Bank, which
saves supports the dollar at the level of 10 -15 points higher of the interbank
trades' level.
In the IRBIS experts opinion, such tactics allows to the National Bank most
effectively to enlarge the gold-currency reserves and to direct an essential
share of deals in dollar to the Exchange.
The dealers also approve that after the obligatory sale cancellation, volume
of dollar transactions has considerably grown in the interbank market. "The
Exchange does not determine now the market movement. More correct, it
determines it only due to the National Bank presence. The quotations
develop within a day on the interbank market", - the dealer of one from the
Kazakhstan banks has told.