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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, said Tuesday that its international reserves stood at 101.7 billion U.S. dollars as of Jan. 15.
The central bank said in a statement that the reserves position is sufficient to finance 7.3 months of retained imports and is one time the short-term external debt.
The international reserves are consisted of 95.8 billion U.S. dollars in foreign currency reserves, 900 million U.S. dollars in International Monetary Fund Reserves Position, 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in Special Drawing Rights, 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in gold and 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in other reserves assets.
