OREANDA-NEWS. August 18, 2008. The amount of currency acquired by NBM in I half of 2008 at the inter-banking market amounted to US556,8 million or 5,8 times more than at the same period of 2007.

As the representatives of the Government and the National Bank of Moldova note, this should not allow excessive strengthening of the national currency.

These actions resulted in the substantial increase in the currency reserves of NBM, which as of late June 2008 exceeded US 1.5 billion, increasing 1.7 times as compared with the same period of the last year.

It should be noted that currency reserves of the National Bank of Moldova has already exceeded the level of US 1.7 billion, reaching the new historical maximum.