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Wednesday, September 16, the country’s Central Bank had to resort to currency interventions worth $114 million to sustain the tenge exchange rate.

• 17 сентября 2015, 01:38

Chairman of the Development Bank of Kazakhstan Bolat Zhamishev about devaluation of the Kazakh tenge and outlook of Kazakhstan's economy.

• 08 сентября 2015, 15:38

The part of the country’s FX and gold reserves spent earlier to maintain the tenge exchange rate [before the decision was taken August 20 to let the tenge float freely] was actually spent to bolster Russia’s economy: Halyk Bank Head.

• 03 сентября 2015, 23:58

Under such circumstances minor players of the market might opt for merging into bigger entities: Mr. Olzhas Khudaibergenov, Head of the Center for Macroeconomic Studies.

• 03 сентября 2015, 00:22

Nazarbayev has elaborated on the reasons behind Kazakhstan's decision to send its tenge floating.

• 24 августа 2015, 19:37

After the devaluation of the Kazakh national currency tenge, Kazakhstan president asked exporters to sell dollars at the domestic market.

• 24 августа 2015, 19:11

President of Kazakhstan instructed the National Bank to initiate a mechanism of compensation for private fixed-term deposits in tenge.

• 21 августа 2015, 15:24

August 20 the country’s Central Bank renounced its policy of the set currency band, letting the national currency float freely.

• 21 августа 2015, 11:41

The Government will be rendering support to socially vulnerable groups of population. In the long run (…) it’s impossible to support all troubled industries out of taxpayers’ money: Karim Massimov.

• 20 августа 2015, 17:13

Energy-rich Kazakhstan announced it was abandoning its currency band for a free-floating exchange rate, in a move that triggered a 23-percent fall in the value of the tenge against the US dollar.

• 20 августа 2015, 16:10

From August 20 the National Bank and the Government have decided to implement a new monetary policy based on inflation targeting and to renounce the earlier practiced currency corridor.

• 20 августа 2015, 15:10

Inflation targeting is another type of monetary policy that rests on the inflation rate in the mid run, rather than on the currency exchange rate: Kairat Kelimbetov.

• 20 августа 2015, 11:56

The National Bank will not be directly defining the exchange rate, but will retain the right to rely on currency interventions if the financial system faces threats of destabilization.

• 20 августа 2015, 11:23

People in Kazakhstan wonder about the meaning of August 19 spike in tenge-dollar exchange rate, while the National Bank keeps silent.

• 20 августа 2015, 01:29

Kazakhstani banks raise dollar-tenge exchange rate. People fear another devaluation of the currency. The Kazakh National Bank is silent.

• 19 августа 2015, 16:50

China's currency devaluation is a step in the long march to a more open regime for the yuan, analysts say, but authorities will need to further loosen their controls to promote long-term growth.

• 14 августа 2015, 15:20

Chairman of the Board of of Kazkommertsbank said that issuing and obtaining loans in dollars in Kazakhstan was dangerous.

• 27 июля 2015, 19:07

The newly published IMF report on economic prospects of the Caucasus and Central Asia is not very optimistic.

• 29 мая 2015, 15:20

Kazakhstan has once again ruled out the possibility of adopting a single currency for the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), despite the propositions of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

• 28 апреля 2015, 00:48

March 20, 2015, while meeting Presidents if Kazakhstan and Belarus, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said the three countries had approached the issue of launching a currency union.

• 30 марта 2015, 08:36