September 21 (SeeNews) - The foreign exchange (FX) reserves held by Albania's central bank fell by 3.1% month-on-month in July to 2.48 billion euro ($2.95 billion), the bank said.
The central bank's end-July FX reserves were 15.% lower compared to the end-2016 level.
Details follow (in millions of euro):
|
July'17 |
June'17 |
end-2016 |
Total international reserve |
2,737.9 |
2,815.5 |
2,945.0 |
FX reserves |
2,484.8 |
2,557.8 |
2,710.7 |
- currency and deposits |
849.4 |
818.9 |
774.0 |
- securities |
1,635.3 |
1,738.8 |
1,936.5 |
Monetary gold |
54.7 |
55.1 |
55.6 |
SDRs |
167.3 |
170.8 |
145.6 |
Reserve position in the IMF |
31.2 |
31.8 |
33.0 |
Financial derivatives |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
($ = 0.839531 euro)