143.600 tons of grain sold via Ural Regional Currency Exchange since August 2005

Sverdlovsk Region is going to consider buying some crops in Armenia and Ukraine, Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Anatoly Gredin announced at a recent government meeting on the region’s grain and flour supply and delivery. The region’s Deputy Minister for Agriculture Vladimir Grebnev informed the attendees that about 260,000 tons of grain or 200,000 tons of flour were required by the mid-Urals’ bread-making industry every year. ‘Our region can only provide for 10% of its own grain needs and depends directly on the pricing policies of the suppliers from the other Russian regions. We import

Vice-president of Ural Regional Currency Exchange (URVB Stock Exchange) Maxim Kostylev has commented on the claim by Tatyana Kolotova, Head of Sverdlovsk Regional Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Ms Kolotova claimed that no exchange was prepared to auction Government Purchases yet. ‘At the moment, Ural Regional Currency Exchange has licenses for auctioneering goods and standard contracts. Our infrastructure embraces complete set of hard- and software for commodity e-exchange. URVB has adopted and confirmed the Rules for Auctioneering in the Section of Commodity Markets. URVB’s

November 20, 2012. Grain prices resumed going up on the markets of the Urals and Siberia last week after a month of stable prices occasioned by commodity interventions, the economic news agency Prime refers to the National Union of Grain Producers as reporting. In Ural Federal District, both fodder wheat and barley grew more expensive, with the price of the latter rising by 350 RUR over one week. All in all, 367,800 tons of 3d-grade wheat and 73,800 tons of 4th-grade wheat have been sold in the course of commodity interventions in Ural, Siberian, and Far Eastern Federal Districts since

In July 2006, the turnover of Ural Regional Currency Exchange exceeded 125.4bn RUR. The foreign currency turnover of the Exchange amounted to 24.1bn RUR, embracing US dollar transactions turnover of $820.4m and Euro transactions turnover of ?59.4m. The government-paper turnover reached the point of 2.8bn RUR. The corporation securities turnover amounted to 87.8bn RUR. This was reported by Ural Regional Currency Exchange.

The total turnover of Ural Federal Currency Exchange traders who use the exchange to speculate on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (dealing in shares and corporate stocks) reached a point of 128.603 billion RUR as opposed to 125.747 billion RUR in 2004. The government-payment sector turnover (government papers and Bank of Russia bonds) came up to 17.226 billion RUR (as opposed to 2.991 billion RUR in 2004), which is 5.8 times more than the year before. The Bank of Russia deposit market transactions turnover comprised 43.830 billion RUR as opposed to 27.478 billion RUR in 2004.