BUCHAREST (Romania), April 1 (SeeNews) - The foreign exchange reserves held by Romania's central bank, excluding gold, fell to 40.143
BUCHAREST (Romania), April 1 (SeeNews) – The foreign exchange reserves held by Romania’s central bank, excluding gold, fell to 40.143 billion euro ($46.35 billion) at the end of March, from 41.877 billion euro a month earlier, the central bank said on Friday.
Foreign exchange inflows amounted to 2.915 billion euro representing changes in credit institutions’ foreign currency-denominated required reserves, inflows into the finance ministry’s accounts and inflows into the European Commission (EC) accounts and other, the bank said in a monthly statement.
Foreign exchange outflows totaled 4.649 billion euro, representing representing changes in credit institutions’ foreign currency-denominated required reserves, interest payments and principal repayments on foreign currency public debt and other.
The gold reserves of the central bank remained unchanged at 103.6 tonnes. However, following the change in the international price of gold, its value amounted to 5.772 billion euro at the end of March.
The international reserves of Romania, including foreign currencies and gold, totalled 45.915 billion euro as of end-March compared to 47.548 billion euro a month earlier.
During April, the payments due on the foreign currency-denominated public and publicly guaranteed debt will amount to approximately 365 million euro.
($= 0.8943 euro)
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