Wednesday 4 February 2009

Kazakhstan devalues currency

Kazakhstan allowed its national currency, the tenge, to drop by almost one-fifth on Wednesday in a devaluation that it blamed on falling world oil prices and the sharp depreciation of the Russian rouble.

The Kazakh central bank set a new corridor for the tenge: it said the currency would be allowed to fluctuate by about 3 per cent around a new level of 150 against the US dollar.

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