OREANDA-NEWS. January 05, 2015. According to the NBM, the official reserve assets the previous week (as of December 12) made up USD 2 billion 238,9 million since the beginning of the year, they declined by USD 680,7 million (-24,1%).

Thus, the fall in currency reserves this year was greater than the increase of the last year, when the official reserve assets of the national Bank increased during the year by USD 305,6 million (+12,2%), reaching at the end of December USD 2 billion 820,6 million. Absolute historical maximum of the currency reserves of Moldova was registered on December 14, 2013, amounting to USD 2 billion 827,2 million.

It should be noted that the greatest reduction of currency reserves of the NBM was registered in November of this year, when they reduced by USD 283.34 million (-10,7%). From the beginning of December 2014 currency reserves of NBM decreased by USD 227 million.