Oil: oil prices fell by approximately 1% during trading on Friday, aiming to end the week down over 3% due to growing concerns about global demand prospects, reports Interfax-Kazakhstan.
February futures for Brent crude on the London ICE Futures exchange, as of 20:02 AST, decreased by $0.69 (0.95%) from Thursday's closing level, reaching $72.19.
The price of WTI crude oil futures for February on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) fell by $0.73 (1.07%) to $68.64 per barrel by this time.
Metals: the price of gold significantly declined on Thursday evening following the release of U.S. macroeconomic data, according to trading data, reports 1prime.ru. As of 20:48 AST, the price of February gold futures on the New York Comex dropped by $48.79, or 1.85%, to $2,604.51 per troy ounce; before the data release, gold had fallen to $2,617. The March silver futures decreased by 4.89% to $29.245 per ounce.
Cryptocurrency: according to coinmarketcap.com, at 23:12 AST, bitcoin was trading at $96,339.9. Over the last 24 hours, the leading cryptocurrency has decreased by 1.4%, with a market capitalization of $1.9 trillion. At this time, Ethereum was priced at $3,425.9, down by 0.52%. Its market capitalization stood at $412.7 billion. The global market capitalization reached $3.33 trillion.
Tenge Exchange Rate: The National Bank of Kazakhstan has set the official foreign exchange rates against the tenge for December 21. The official USD to tenge exchange rate was established based on the results of two sessions at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on December 20, while the official rates for other currencies were calculated through cross-rates formed at 17:00 AST on December 20.
1 Australian Dollar 326.36 Tenge
1 Azerbaijani Manat 309.06 Tenge
10 Armenian Drams 13.3 Tenge
1 Belarusian Ruble 160.39 Tenge
1 Brazilian Real 85.15 Tenge
10 Hungarian Forints 13.17 Tenge
1 Hong Kong Dollar 67.41 Tenge
1 Georgian Lari 189.46 Tenge
1 Danish Krone 73 Tenge
1 UAE Dirham 142.64 Tenge
1 US Dollar 523.86 Tenge
1 Euro 544.34 Tenge
1 Indian Rupee 6.17 Tenge
1000 Iranian Rials 12.5 Tenge
1 Canadian Dollar 364.32 Tenge
1 Chinese Yuan 71.77 Tenge
1 Kuwaiti Dinar 1700.73 Tenge
1 Kyrgyz Som 6.02 Tenge
1 Malaysian Ringgit 116.26 Tenge
1 Mexican Peso 25.82 Tenge
1 Moldovan Leu 28.6 Tenge
1 Norwegian Krone 45.88 Tenge
1 Polish Zloty 127.82 Tenge
1 Saudi Riyal 139.43 Tenge
1 Russian Ruble 5.11 Tenge
1 SDR 683.66 Tenge
1 Singapore Dollar 385.7 Tenge
1 Tajik Somoni 48.15 Tenge
1 Thai Baht 15.23 Tenge
1 Turkish Lira 14.89 Tenge
100 Uzbek Som 4.07 Tenge
1 Ukrainian Hryvnia 12.5 Tenge
1 British Pound Sterling 655.19 Tenge
1 Czech Koruna 21.67 Tenge
1 Swedish Krona 47.46 Tenge
1 Swiss Franc 584.71 Tenge
1 South African Rand 28.51 Tenge
100 South Korean Won 36.17 Tenge
1 Japanese Yen 3.34 Tenge.