November 15 (SeeNews) - Serbia's central bank said it has bought 25 million euro ($27.5 million) from commercial banks on Thursday to curb gains of the local dinar currency.
The official exchange rate for Friday was set at 117.4829 dinars per euro, the central bank said in a statement after the intervention that aimed to alleviate the excessive volatility of the dinar exchange rate.
NBS is implementing a managed float exchange rate regime based on supply and demand to preserve price and financial stability and to maintain an adequate level of foreign exchange reserves.
(1 euro = 117.460 dinars)