BEIJING, Aug 7 - China's foreign exchange reserves unexpectedly rose in July, official data showed on Sunday. The country's foreign exc
BEIJING, Aug 7 – China’s foreign exchange reserves
unexpectedly rose in July, official data showed on Sunday.
The country’s foreign exchange reserves – the world’s
largest – rose $32.8 billion to $3.104 trillion last month,
compared with $3.05 trillion tipped by a Reuters poll of
analysts and $3.071 trillion in June.
The yuan fell 0.64% against the dollar in July,
while the dollar rose 1.07% against a basket of other major
currencies.
China held 62.64 million fine troy ounces of gold at the end
of July, unchanged from end-June.
The value of its gold reserves fell to $109.84 billion at
the end of July from $113.82 billion at end-June.
(Reporting by Judy Hua, Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editnig by
Kim Coghill)
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