Almost the entire volume of purchases was in euros and American dollars.
In December 2023, Russians made record purchases of foreign currency for the whole year - for 179 billion rubles. This is reported in the financial market risk review of the Bank of Russia.
Almost the entire volume of purchases fell on euros and U.S. dollars.
Large sellers of currency in the market with instantaneous settlements (sport) were systemically important credit organizations (SZKO). They are the main agents that sell foreign exchange earnings of exporters.
They sold currency worth 588.2 billion rubles on the Moscow Exchange in December. This is 14% more than in November-2023. Then the inhabitants of Russia bought currency for 160 billion rubles.
Earlier wrote that in Russia opened a record number of IE in 2023.
In addition, it was reported, last year sharply increased the country's gold reserves.