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Bulgarian C-Bank FX Reserves Fall 3.1% in Week Ended Dec 12 - Table

Dec 15, 2008, 5:00:45 PMArticle by Iva Doneva
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December 15 (SeeNews) - The foreign exchange assets of the Bulgarian central bank's (BNB) Issue Department totalled 26.07 billion levs ($17.95 billion/13.32 billion euro) on December 12, down 3.1% from a week earlier, BNB data showed on Monday.

Bulgarian C-Bank FX Reserves Fall 3.1% in Week Ended Dec 12 - Table

Following are details from the Issue Department’s balance sheet (in millions of levs):

Dec 12 Dec 5 Dec 31'07
TOTAL ASSETS 26,071.307 26,917.363 23,346.050
FX cash and nostro accounts 2,425.101 2,781.614 3,509.428
Monetary gold and other monetary gold instruments 1,529.614 1,515.433 1,410.480
Investments in securities 22,116.592 22,620.316 18,426.142
TOTAL LIABILITIES 26,071.307 26,917.363 23,346.050
Currency in circulation 8,826.014 8,654.990 8,410.867
Liabilities to banks 4,551.428 5,392.910 5,783.339
Liabilities to government and to government budget institutions 9,351.378 9,543.826 6,446.755
Liabilities to other depositors 280.024 287.731 340.108
Banking department deposit 3,062.463 3,037.906 2,364.981

Since July 1997 Bulgaria has been operating an IMF-prescribed currency board system, a tight monetary arrangement that ties the level of cash in circulation to the amount of central bank reserves. The fixed exchange rate of the Bulgarian lev under this system is 1.95583 per euro.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)

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