On October 5, the National Mercantile Exchange CJSC (NAMEX) held the regular stock exchange trading within frames of public grain purchasing interventions in the regional trading platforms of Russia, and purchased 48.195 thousand tons of grains (from the proposed volume of 54 thousand tons) valued at 450.181 million RUR, the press-service of NAMEX declared.
In particular, the fund purchased 11.475 thousand tons of 3-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 14.58 thousand tons), 23.895 thousand tons of 4-grade wheat (whole proposed volume), 5.94 thousand tons of 5-grade wheat (from the proposed volume of 8.64 thousand tons), and 6.885 thousand tons of 1-group barley (whole proposed volume).
The weighted average prices of the grains sold to the intervention fund were as follows: 3-grade wheat – 10`540.8 RUR/ton; 4-grade wheat – 9`864.9 RUR/ton; 5-grade wheat – 8`435.7 RUR/ton; 1-group barley – 7`809.2 RUR/ton.
Since the beginning of the purchasing auction (September 19), the intervention fund at NAMEX exchange site has already purchased 326.7 thousand tons of grains valued at 3.223 billion RUR. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)