KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara’s international reserves rose to US$128.3bil as at Feb 27, compared with US$127.9bil as at Feb 13.
“The reserves position is sufficient to finance 4.7 months of imports of goods and services, and is 0.9 times the total short-term external debt,” the central bank said in a statement.
The main components of the reserves were foreign currency reserves (US$112.5bil), International Monetary Fund reserves (US$1.3bil), special drawing rights (US$6bil), gold (US$6.1bil), and other reserve assets (US$2.4bil).
