It averaged $84.6140 against last week’s 84.5282
A record US$5.1 million was allotted to 335 bids in the small and medium enterprise sector while 329 bigger companies got U$36.5 million.
The auction has so far disbursed US$1.3 billion since it was launched on 23 June last year, US$631.9 million of it this year.
Zimbabwe is banking on the foreign currency auction to stabilise the economy and hopes to see inflation drop to 55% in two months and to less than 10% by the end of the year.
Inflation for April was 194%. United States economist Steve Hanke said his own calculation showed that it was down to 155% on 8 May.
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