OREANDA-NEWS. November 10, 2008. At the end of October 2008, official reserve assets made up LTL 16.6 billion (EUR 4.8 billion). Throughout October they increased by LTL 981.9 million or 6.3 percent, reported the press-centre of Bank of Lithuania.

The growth of official reserve assets was driven by the growth of currency in circulation and other factors that went up respectively by LTL 618.9 million and LTL 215.5 million. Also, official reserve assets were pushed up by a hike of LTL 85 million in external liabilities of the Bank of Lithuania and an increase in central government and MFIs deposits with the Bank of Lithuania respectively by LTL 31.5 million and LTL 30.9 million.

The official reserve assets data for November 2008 are to be released on 5 December 2008.