Egypt’s C.Bank Raises $40 mln at FX Auction Today
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has offered today its final foreign exchange auction for this week totaled US$ 40 million for local banks. The central bank is offering on Thursday its 114th FX Auction since application and the 97th since Hisham Ramez hold the office as the CBE’s Governor last February.
Hence, the CBE has pumped US$ 4.560 billion through its periodic FX Auctions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, in addition, 2.7 billion through the non-periodic FX Auction , issued last April and May as well as the current September.
The central bank has offered its last US Dollar FX Auction on Wednesday, November 9th in which the US dollar has closed at EGP 6.88.
The central bank announced that the foreign exchange reserves hit US$ 18.709 billion by the end of last September, against US$ 18.916 billion by the end of last August, down US$ 207 million.
