TIRANA (Albania), June 8 (SeeNews) - The foreign exchange (FX) reserves held by Albania's central bank totalled $4.6 billion (4.3 bil
TIRANA (Albania), June 8 (SeeNews) – The foreign exchange (FX) reserves held by Albania’s central bank totalled $4.6 billion (4.3 billion euro) at the end of April, up 6.2% year-on-year, central bank data showed.
On a monthly comparison basis, the central bank’s FX reserves fell 5.8% at the end of April, the data showed.
Details follow (in millions of US dollars):
| April ’22 | March ’22 | April ’21 | |
| Total international reserves | 5,162.9 | 5,457.5 | 4,778.4 |
| FX reserves | 4,631.6 | 4,915.3 | 4,362.8 |
| – currency and deposits | 1,687.7 | 1,969.9 | 2,119.3 |
| – securities | 2,943.9 | 2,945.4 | 2,243.5 |
| Monetary gold | 185.1 | 183.7 | 158.0 |
| SDRs | 311.0 | 322.5 | 220.2 |
| Reserve position in the IMF | 35.0 | 36.0 | 37.3 |
| Financial derivatives | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
($ = 0.9323 euro)
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