KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara’s international reserves rose to US$118.4bil as at April 15 from US$117.5bil as at March 28.
“The reserves position is sufficient to finance 4.9 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.
The main components of the reserves were foreign currency reserves (US$105.3bil), the International Monetary Fund reserves position (US$1.3bil), special drawing rights (US$5.8bil), gold (US$3.8bil) and other reserve assets (US$2.2bil).
