{"id":93664,"date":"2020-09-23T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93664"},"modified":"2020-09-23T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:11:46","slug":"malaysias-central-banks-international-reserves-at-us104-8-bln-as-at-sept-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93664","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s Central Bank&#8217;s International Reserves at US$104.8 Bln as at Sept 15, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) &#8212; Bank Negara Malaysia&#8217;s\n(BNM or Malaysia\u2019s Central Bank) international reserves amounted to US$104.8\nbillion as at Sept 15, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement today, BNM said the reserves position is\nsufficient to finance 8.7 months of retained imports and is 1.1 times the total\nshort-term external debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the main components of the international reserves\nwere foreign currency reserves (US$104.8 billion), International Monetary Fund\nreserves position (US$1.3 billion), Special Drawing Rights (US$1.1 billion),\ngold (US$2.2 billion), and other reserve assets (US$3.9 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assets comprised gold and foreign exchange and other\nreserves, including SDRs amounting to RM448.13 billion; Malaysian government\npapers (RM10.95 billion); deposits with financial institutions (RM7.0 billion);\nloans and advances (RM16.52 billion); land and buildings (RM4.17 billion); and\nother assets (RM15.44 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central bank added that capital and liabilities\ncomprised paid-up capital (RM100 million), reserves (RM177.75 billion),\ncurrency in circulation (RM126.18 billion), deposits with financial\ninstitutions (RM145.55 billion), federal government deposits (RM8.16 billion),\nother deposits (RM15.63 billion), Bank Negara papers (RM15.28 billion),\nallocation of SDRs (RM7.93 billion), and other liabilities (RM5.63 billion).\n(US$1 = RM4.13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) &#8212; Bank Negara Malaysia&#8217;s (BNM or Malaysia\u2019s Central Bank) international reserves amounted to US$104.8 billion as at Sept 15, 2020. In a statement today, BNM said the reserves position is sufficient to finance 8.7 months of retained imports and is 1.1 times the total short-term external debt. It said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}