{"id":548065,"date":"2026-06-04T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=548065"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:16:00","slug":"foreign-currency-supply-exceeded-demand-by-177-7-million-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreign-currency-supply-exceeded-demand-by-177-7-million-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Currency Supply Exceeded Demand by $177.7 Million in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Foreign currency supply exceeded demand by $177.7 million in May, while the cumulative surplus of supply reached $737.8 million over the first five months of the year, according to the latest statistics from the National Bank.<\/p>\n<p><mark>Foreign Exchange Market Turnover in May<\/mark> amounted to $12.65 billion. It declined compared with March and April, when turnover exceeded $13 billion. Compared with May 2025, market turnover increased by 17.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals purchased $1.14 billion worth of foreign currency in May and sold $1.45 billion. The volume of foreign currency sales by individuals was the highest since the beginning of the year. As a result, net foreign currency sales by this group reached $310.5 million, also the highest monthly figure of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Banks purchased $6.75 billion worth of foreign currency in May. Their foreign currency sales exceeded purchases by only $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Non-residents purchased $277.6 million worth of foreign currency last month and sold $378 million. They generated net foreign currency supply of $100.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Resident business entities purchased $3.65 billion worth of foreign currency in May and sold $3.4 billion. They generated net demand of $235.7 million.<\/p>\n<p><mark>Foreign Exchange Market Turnover Over Five Months<\/mark> amounted to nearly $61 billion. It increased by 22.9% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>In January\u2013May, individuals purchased $5.5 billion worth of foreign currency and sold nearly $6.5 billion. They generated net foreign currency supply of $953.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>During the same period, banks purchased $32.15 billion worth of foreign currency and sold $32.03 billion. They were net buyers of foreign currency in the amount of $110.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Non-residents purchased $1.37 billion worth of foreign currency in January\u2013May and sold $1.72 billion, generating net foreign currency supply of $346.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Resident business entities purchased $17.89 billion worth of foreign currency over the five-month period and sold $17.435 billion. Their net demand amounted to $452.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign currency supply exceeded demand by $177.7 million in May, while the cumulative surplus of supply reached $737.8 million over the first five months of the year, according to the latest statistics from the National Bank. Foreign Exchange Market Turnover in May amounted to $12.65 billion. It declined compared with March and April, when turnover [&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\/06\/6a213443b1701.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreign Currency Supply Exceeded Demand by $177.7 Million in May"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548065","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=548065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548065\/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=548065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}