PETALING JAYA: Bank Negara’s international reserves rose RM570mil or US$200mil to RM392.49b or US$97.7b at Sept 15 from two weeks ago.
The central bank in a statement said that the reserves position was sufficient to finance 8.1 months of retained imports and is 1.2 times the short-term external debt.
The latest reserves showed an improvement from Aug 30 when the foreign reserves were RM391.92bil or US$97.5bil, the central bank said in the statement.
