{"id":539889,"date":"2026-05-07T07:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539889"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:56:19","slug":"foreign-currency-supply-exceeded-demand-by-489-7-million-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreign-currency-supply-exceeded-demand-by-489-7-million-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Currency Supply Exceeded Demand by $489.7 Million in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>According to statistics from the National Bank, the supply of foreign currency exceeded demand by $489.7 million in April.<\/p>\n<p><mark>Foreign exchange market turnover in April<\/mark> amounted to $13.92 billion. This was the highest level since the beginning of the year. Compared with the same month last year, foreign exchange market turnover increased by 27.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals bought $1.19 billion worth of foreign currency in April and sold $1.4 billion. The volume of foreign currency sales by individuals was the highest since the start of the year. As a result, individuals were net sellers of foreign currency in the amount of $228.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Banks bought $6.98 billion worth of foreign currency in April and sold $6.96 billion, generating net demand of $21.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Non-residents bought $362.9 million worth of foreign currency last month and sold $306 million. They were net buyers in the amount of $57 million, which is relatively rare.<\/p>\n<p>Resident business entities bought $3.66 billion worth of foreign currency and sold nearly $4 billion. They generated net supply of $339.9 million.<\/p>\n<p><mark>In January-April, foreign exchange market turnover<\/mark> amounted to $48.3 billion. This was an increase of 24.3% compared with the same period last year. Over the four-month period, foreign currency supply exceeded demand by $560 million.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals bought $4.36 billion worth of foreign currency in January-April and sold $5 billion, generating net supply of $642.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Over four months, banks bought $25.4 billion worth of foreign currency and sold $25.3 billion. They were net buyers of foreign currency in the amount of $112.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Non-residents bought $1.09 billion worth of foreign currency in January-April and sold $1.34 billion. They generated net supply of $246.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Resident business entities bought $14.24 billion worth of foreign currency and sold $14.02 billion. They were net buyers of foreign currency in the amount of $216.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to statistics from the National Bank, the supply of foreign currency exceeded demand by $489.7 million in April. Foreign exchange market turnover in April amounted to $13.92 billion. This was the highest level since the beginning of the year. Compared with the same month last year, foreign exchange market turnover increased by 27.8%. Individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fc45a6dde37.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreign Currency Supply Exceeded Demand by $489.7 Million in April"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}