10 мая 200714:35
Regional banks perform 1.8% more transactions in 2006
Bank, the statistics newsletter of the Bank of Russia in Sverdlovsk Region, published its report on the local foreign currency market in 2006. On the whole, the number of operations on the market exceeded that for 2005 by 1.8%. The number of banks’ transactions involving foreign cash went down 1.7% in the last quarter of the year compared to the previous quarter. Natural persons withdrew 17.6% more money from their foreign currency accounts in October-December 2006 compared to the previous quarter and 1.7% more money in 2006 compared to a year earlier. At the same time, they invested 5.1%