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Forint weakens slightly on interbank forex market
(Hungarian News Agency Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Budapest, April 17, 2007 (MTI-ECONEWS) - The forint was trading at 245.50/60 to the euro late on Tuesday, compared to 245.20/30 on Monday, weakening a slight 11bp to 13.04pc on the strong side of its +/-15pc intervention band.
The forint traded between 245.20 and 246.20 to the euro during the session, moving parallel with other emerging market currencies.
The forint was trading at 180.60/70 to the dollar late on Tuesday, firming from 180.95/181.05 on Monday.
On the forint market, O/N rates rose 30bp to 7.95/8.10pc after banks decided to put HUF 511.3bn into central bank two-week bills on Wednesday, 25.6bn more than the amount of the bills maturing. Total two-week bill stock will rise to HUF 1,116.2bn as a result.
Traders said many investors are betting the National Bank of Hungary will cut rates 25bp at a meeting on Monday.
On the secondary market for government securities, yields rose 1-5bp.
Copyright 2007 Hungarian News Agency Corporation. Source: Financial Times Information Limited.
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