U.S. dollar drops by 0.47 percentage points over Armenian dram

YEREVAN, June 20. /ARKA/.  The average market value of US dollar has dropped today by 0.17 percentage points over the Armenian national currency from June 17 to 476.89 drams, the Central Bank said.

It said also the average market value of Euro has grown from 536.69 drams to 540.46 drams and that of Russian ruble has grown from 7.31 to 7.44 drams. No transactions with USD or euros were effected at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange.-0-

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