Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Czech central bank (CNB) said on
Friday its foreign exchange reserves edged up to 23.48 billion
euros at the end of...
...August from a 23.21 billion euros a month
earlier.
In dollar terms, reserves rose to $32.20 billion from a
$31.82 billion, the bank said. The CNB holds more than half of
its foreign exchange reserves in euros and slightly more than a
third in the U.S. dollars. The rest is allocated to the British
pound and the Japanese yen.
CZECH FOREX RESERVES END-AUG 07 END-JULY 07 END-AUG 06
euro bln 23.477 23.210 24.076
$ bln 32.201 31.815 30.941
CZK bln 651.353 650.682 679.305
NOTE. The central bank said it sold foreign currency worth
an equivalent of 60 million euros in spot foreign exchange
market operations in July.
It bought foreign currency worth 43.5 million euros in
client operations in July.
(Reporting by Mirka Krufova in Prague)
Keywords: CZECH ECONOMY/FOREX