Foreign Reserves fell by $2.0 million over September

Official foreign reserves held by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) fell by $2.0 million over the month of September 2017 to $403.0 million, equivalent to 7.2 months of imports. Over the past year, the official foreign reserves rose by $39.3 million.

OFFICIAL FOREIGN RESERVES

(millions of pa'anga)

  Level Changes
Ration of official foreign reserves to imports i (months)
  Month 12 Months

2016        
Mar 317.3 -11.2 47.1 6.7
Apr 322.9 5.6 50.8 6.7
May 330.7 7.8 48.9 6.8
Jun 354.9 24.2 65.2 7.2
Jul 367.4 12.5 64.8 7.4
Aug 366.3 -1.1 55.4 7.3
Sep 363.7 -2.6 52.0 7.1
Oct 367.0 3.3 51.2 7.2
Nov 360.9 -6.1 41.9 7.0
Dec 378.8 17.9 51.0 7.2

 2017        
Jan 380.8 2.0 54.5 7.2
Feb 377.7 -3.1 49.2 7.1
Mar 366.0 -11.7 48.7 6.7
Apr 371.7 5.7 48.8 6.8
May 392.3 20.6 61.6 7.2
Jun 407.9 15.6 53.0 7.4
Jul 408.9 1.0 41.5 7.4
Aug 405.0 -3.9 38.7 7.3
Sep 403.0 -2.0 39.3 7.2

Source: National Reserve Bank of Tonga
i - Method of calculation changed in February 2017 to include imports of both goods and services (previous method used imports of goods only).

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