Foreign Exchange Market Indicators and Outstanding BRH Bonds, Week of August 3 to 7, 2020
- Commercial banks bought USD 38,718,181.93 during the week.
- Commercial banks sold USD 39,345,136.38 during the week.
- The weighted average purchase rate was 121.2489 gourdes per dollar.
- The outstanding stock of BRH bonds totals HTG 4,453,339,187.87.
The note belongs to a regular series in which the BRH publishes key indicators on foreign exchange market transactions and BRH bonds. The BRH states that it wants to reduce information asymmetry, which it says feeds the public's impatience for dollars and the accelerated depreciation of the gourde, and to give the public a basis for better portfolio choices.
Commercial banks bought USD 38,718,181.93 at a weighted average rate of 121.2489 gourdes per dollar and sold USD 39,345,136.38 over the week. The outstanding stock of BRH bonds, by intermediary and by sector, totals HTG 4,453,339,187.87. The note defines the average purchase and sale rates, the spread and the estimated exchange gain, and it is issued by the International Affairs Directorate (DAI) of the BRH.
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Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH), Foreign Exchange Market Indicators and Outstanding BRH Bonds, Week of August 3 to 7, 2020, https://www.brh.ht/wp-content/uploads/Marché-des-changes-Obligations-BRH-Indicateurs-9_07-aout-2020.pdf
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