The country had foreign currency inflows of EUR837 million and outflows of EUR1.155 billion, the data showed.
The country’s gold reserve remained steady at 103.7 metric tons and its value adjusted for international gold price stood at EUR3.448 billion at the end of August.
Romania’s overall international reserves (foreign currency and gold) stood at EUR34.508 billion end-August, down 1% from EUR34.845 billion end-July 2018 and down 10.6% from August 2017.
August 2018 is the seventh consecutive month of decline for the country’s international reserves. Economists say this trend shows the central bank’s intervention to support the leu, which has been under pressure due to the evolution of the inflation rate and to the international context.
Payments due on public and publicly guaranteed external debt in September amount to nearly EUR199 million.