(March 7): Malaysia’s international reserves fell nearly 1% as of Feb 29 from a fortnight earlier, the central bank said on Thursday.
Latest foreign exchange reserves totalled US$114.3 billion compared with US$115.4 billion on Feb 15, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said in a statement.
The position is sufficient to finance 5.4 months of imports of goods and services, and is one time the total short-term external debt, it added.
Bank Negara Malaysia releases data on foreign exchange reserves every two weeks.