OREANDA-NEWS. January 30, 2013. An amount of cashless transactions in the internal currency market of Moldova increased 10.8% in December as compared with November and made up USD1 bln. 068.6 mln. in equivalent.

In December, 2012 the daily turnover on the market made up USD 53.43 mln. against USD 43.83 bln. in November. In the total amount of the transactions, the share of sales and purchases of USD made up 56.4% (USD 603.3 mln.), making 41% (USD 437.87 mln.) for EUR, 2.1% (USD 22.47 mln.), for RUB, 0.08% (USD 0.88 mln.) for RON and 0.02% (USD 228.2 thou.) for UAH.

A share of transactions in USD increased 6.4 p.p; a share of transactions in EUR dropped 5.9 p.p.; a share of transactions in RUB declined 0.3 p.p., a share of transactions in RON decreased 0.02 p.p. and the UAH transactions increased 0.01 p.p.

In December the average exchange rate of MDL was 12.164 leis against USD (12.35 in November); 15.9716 leis against EUR ( 15.83 leis in November); 0.4389 leis against RUB (0.39 in November), 3.5609 leis against RON (3.51 leis in November) and 1.4709 leis against UAH (1.47 leis in November).

The turnover of the cashless foreign exchange market includes all sales and purchases of currencies made in various sectors of the market with the exception of those performed by NBM.