OREANDA-NEWS. December 05, 2008. As it was informed in the National Bank of Moldova, the transactions on purchasing main foreign currencies for leis amounted to US518.5 million and sales – to US 601.4 million.

As compared to the last month, in October, 2008, the volume of purchase has decreased by 14.7% and volume of sales- by 1.5%, respectively. 60,3% of all the transactions were executed with USD.

The share of transactions with euros made 35%, with Russian ruble - 4%, with Ukrainian hryvna -0.4% and with Romanian lei- 0.3%. As compared with September 2008, the share of turnover with USD increased by 2.2 points, and decreased by 2.2 and 0.4 points with euro and ruble.