{"id":565894,"date":"2026-08-06T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=565894"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:59:48","slug":"foreign-currency-supply-exceeded-demand-by-more-than-500-million-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreign-currency-supply-exceeded-demand-by-more-than-500-million-in-july","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Currency Supply Exceeded Demand by More Than $500 Million in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The supply of foreign currency in Belarus exceeded demand by $538.22 million in July, according to the latest data from the National Bank. Over the first seven months of the year, the cumulative surplus in foreign currency supply reached nearly $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p><mark>In July<\/mark>, turnover on the foreign exchange market totalled $14.66 billion, the highest monthly figure recorded this year. Compared with the same month last year, turnover increased by 23.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Households purchased $1.21 billion worth of foreign currency in July and sold $1.42 billion, resulting in net foreign currency sales of $213.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Banks purchased $7.7 billion worth of foreign currency last month and sold $7.67 billion. As a result, they were net buyers of $25.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Non-residents purchased $320.1 million worth of foreign currency in July and sold $546.6 million, generating net foreign currency sales of $226.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian businesses purchased $4.22 billion worth of foreign currency during the month and sold $4.34 billion, resulting in net foreign currency sales of $123.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign exchange market turnover <mark>for the first seven months of the year<\/mark> reached $90.07 billion, up 22.8% compared with the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Between January and July, households purchased $7.97 billion worth of foreign currency and sold $9.3 billion, generating net foreign currency sales of $1.336 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Over the same period, banks purchased $47.3 billion worth of foreign currency and sold $47.2 billion, making them net buyers of $106.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Non-residents purchased $1.96 billion worth of foreign currency during the first seven months of the year and sold $2.735 billion, generating net foreign currency sales of $772.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, Belarusian businesses have purchased $26.38 billion worth of foreign currency and sold $25.68 billion, resulting in net foreign currency purchases of $705.3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supply of foreign currency in Belarus exceeded demand by $538.22 million in July, according to the latest data from the National Bank. Over the first seven months of the year, the cumulative surplus in foreign currency supply reached nearly $1.3 billion. In July, turnover on the foreign exchange market totalled $14.66 billion, the highest [&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\/08\/6a744d0ba40c4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreign Currency Supply Exceeded Demand by More Than $500 Million in July"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565894","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=565894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565894\/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=565894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}