| Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, which controls oil producer KazMunaiGaz and the nation’s rail monopoly, said selling its companies’ foreign-currency earnings alone won’t stave off pressure on the tenge to decline.
“We are ready to fully support” a request to stabilize the tenge and the Kazakh financial sector, “but we will do it intelligently, taking into account the needs of every unit,” Yelena Bakhmutova, deputy chief executive officer of the fund, known as Samruk-Kazyna, said in an interview in Almaty on Friday. “We will try to implement our part, but I am afraid that our deeds alone won’t change the situation on the market.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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