The hryvnia fell sharply: what to expect from the dollar exchange rate further

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on Monday, January 17, calculated the following official hryvnia exchange rate against major foreign currencies:

• 1 US dollar – 27.95 UAH;
• 1 euro – 31.98 UAH;
• 1 zloty – 7.0 UAH;
• 10 Russian rubles – 3.64 UAH.

Compared to the previous banking day, the dollar has risen in price immediately on 22 pennies, and euro – 20 years old kopecks. The zloty exchange rate has not changed, and the ruble exchange rate has fallen by 3 kopecks.

What happened to the exchange rate on the interbank market?

On Friday, January 14, the American currency overcame the psychological threshold of UAH 28. Trading started with values 27.91 / 27.93 UAH, and before they closed, the dollar rose in price in buying and selling up to 27,995 / 28,015 hryvnias

The entire banking day, the Ukrainian hryvnia was under pressure and the single European currency also rose to UAH 32.03/32.05.

What will happen to the dollar in the near future?

According to experts “Today”, this week, from 17 to 23 January, the hryvnia will continue devaluation. As Maxim Oryshchak, an analyst at the Center for Exchange Technologies, said, the average rate will fluctuate around 27.75-28.10 UAH per dollar.

According to the head of the analytics department of the Forex club Andrey Shevchishin, the dollar will stay in the range 28.2-28.3 UAH

The most pessimistic forecast is from the President of the Ukrainian Analytical Center Alexander Okhrimenko, the expert believes that despite the efforts of the National Bank, the hryvnia will weaken up to 28.5.

Segodnya also wrote what would happen to the dollar in the event of a large-scale Russian military invasion and told why experts advise not to buy the dollar now.