BANK Negara's international reserves increased by RM1.5bil (US$400mil) during the second half of December to RM131.5bil (US$34.6bil) as at Dec 31, 2002.
The reserves position is adequate to finance 5.4 months of retained imports and is about 4.5 times the short-term external debt.
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