KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara’s international reserves rose to US$132.6bil as at June 30 compared with US$130.5bil as at June 15.
“The reserves position is sufficient to finance 4.7 months of imports of goods and services, and is 0.9 times of total short-term external debt,” Bank Negara said in a statement.
The main components of the reserves were foreign currency reserves (US$117.2bil), International Monetary Fund reserves (US$1.3bil), special drawing rights (US$6bil), gold (US$5.8bil), and other reserve assets (US$2.3bil).
