OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2010. As of the end of October this year, the National Bank’s monetary reserves totaled USD 1,645.45 million, it was informed in the National Bank.

The reduction in monetary reserves in November resulted from such factors as depreciation of exchange rates of the currencies composing monetary reserves against the US dollar - USD 38.94 million, payments on Moldova’s external debt - USD 2.17 million, other external debts - USD 2.91 million.

At the same time, the rise in the official reserve assets was contributed by: interventions into the home foreign exchange market as purchase of currency - USD 6.16 million, profit from currency reserves management - USD 1.6 million, net entries belonging to the obligatory reserves of the licensed banks in foreign currency - USD 1.05 million, other receipts - USD 0.67 million.