Bank Negara international reserves up at US$118bil

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KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara’s international reserves rose to US118bil as at Nov 15 compared with US$117.6bil as at Oct 30.

“The reserves position is sufficient to finance 4.6 months of imports of goods and services, and is 0.9 times of the total short-term external debt,” the central bank said in a statement.