Oil: Oil prices for benchmark grades returned to positive territory on Friday evening amid low trading activity due to holidays in the U.S., as investors assess the situation in the Middle East. This was reported by Interfax-Kazakhstan.
January futures for Brent crude on the London ICE Futures exchange were trading at $73.37 per barrel as of 20:24 AST, which is $0.09 (0.12%) higher than the previous trading close. The January futures contract expires with the market close on Friday. More actively traded February contracts increased in price by $0.35 (0.48%) to $73.13 per barrel.
January WTI oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) rose in price by $0.75 (1.09%) to $69.47 per barrel at the specified time.
Metals: The price of gold rose on Friday evening; however, it may show the largest monthly decline since September 2023 by the end of November, according to trading data, as reported by 1prime.ru.
As of 20:42 AST, the price of February gold futures on the New York Comex rose by $14.71, or 0.55%, to $2,679.51 per troy ounce. March silver futures increased by 1.81% to $31.11 per ounce.
Cryptocurrency: According to the portal coinmarketcap.com, at 20:50 AST, bitcoin was trading at $97,342.80. Over the past 24 hours, the leading cryptocurrency appreciated by 2.14%, with a market capitalization of $1.9 trillion. Ethereum was priced at $3,584.30, up by 0.07%. Its market capitalization stood at $431.2 billion. The global market capitalization reached $3.38 trillion.
Tenge Exchange Rate: The National Bank of Kazakhstan has set the official exchange rates for foreign currencies against the tenge as of November 30. The official exchange rate of the tenge to the U.S. dollar was established based on the results of two sessions at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on November 29, while the official exchange rate of the tenge against other currencies was calculated through cross-rates established at 17:00 AST on November 29.
1 Australian Dollar 332.45 Tenge
1 Azerbaijani Manat 301.6 Tenge
10 Armenian Drams 13.04 Tenge
1 Belarusian Ruble 156.52 Tenge
1 Brazilian Real 85 Tenge
10 Hungarian Forints 13.1 Tenge
1 Hong Kong Dollar 65.68 Tenge
1 Georgian Lari 185.56 Tenge
1 Danish Krone 72.42 Tenge
1 UAE Dirham 139.19 Tenge
1 U.S. Dollar 511.22 Tenge
1 Euro 540.05 Tenge
1 Indian Rupee 6.05 Tenge
1000 Iranian Rials 12.02 Tenge
1 Canadian Dollar 365.03 Tenge
1 Chinese Yuan 70.61 Tenge
1 Kuwaiti Dinar 1664.51 Tenge
1 Kyrgyz Som 5.89 Tenge
1 Malaysian Ringgit 115.14 Tenge
1 Mexican Peso 25.02 Tenge
1 Moldovan Leu 28.09 Tenge
1 Norwegian Krone 46.15 Tenge
1 Polish Zloty 125.67 Tenge
1 Saudi Riyal 136.1 Tenge
1 Russian Ruble 4.73 Tenge
1 SDR 671.7 Tenge
1 Singapore Dollar 381.42 Tenge
1 Tajik Somoni 47.12 Tenge
1 Thai Baht 14.9 Tenge
1 Turkish Lira 14.74 Tenge
100 Uzbek Som 3.99 Tenge
1 Ukrainian Hryvnia 12.29 Tenge
1 British Pound Sterling 648.94 Tenge
1 Czech Koruna 21.38 Tenge
1 Swedish Krona 46.88 Tenge
1 Swiss Franc 580.73 Tenge
1 South African Rand 28.32 Tenge
100 South Korean Won 36.63 Tenge
1 Japanese Yen 3.41 Tenge.