Romania central bank's Nov. FX reserves fall to 33.1bn euros

BUCHAREST: The Romanian central bank's foreign exchange reserves, excluding 103.7 tonnes of gold, fell by 870 million euros on the month to 33.1 billion euros ($39.24 billion) at the end of November, the bank said on Monday.

Inflows were 1.07 billion euros and included inflows into the finance ministry's accounts, inflows into the European Commission's account.

Outflows totalled 1.94 billion euros and reflected changes in credit institutions' foreign currency-denominated required reserves, interest payments and principal repayments on foreign currency public debt.

The central bank said payments to service external public and publicly guaranteed foreign currency debt in December amounted to roughly 107 million euros.