October 2 trading started with GEL depreciation. In the Bloomberg system, one dollar currently costs 3.15 GEL, which is 3 tetri higher than the exchange rate at the beginning of the trade.
The NBG will set a new official rate on Monday.
Yesterday, the lari depreciated against the dollar and the euro. The change in the exchange rate against the dollar was 1.56 tetri, as a result of which the official value of the dollar became 3.1345 lari.
According to the NBG, the national currency strengthened by 2.12 tetri against the euro, as a result of which the official value of one euro became 3.6310 GEL.
The National Bank of Georgia held a foreign exchange auction on September 30 and sold $ 60 million. As a result of the auction, the lari strengthened against the dollar and the euro on Thursday.
This was the ninth foreign exchange intervention of the National Bank in 2021, the last auction was held by the NBG on August 3, during which it sold $ 30 million. In total, by 2021, the National Bank had sold $ 332.9 million in interventions.
