Foreign exchange inflows totaled EUR1.86 billion last month, from EUR888 million in August, while total outflows fell to EUR943 million from EUR2.07 billion in the previous month.
Outflows included the equivalent of around EUR243 million representing the payment of the eleventh principal installment on an EUR13 billion loan Romania and the International Monetary Fund signed in 2009.
Romania’s payments to the IMF reached the equivalent of EUR3.46 billion in the first nine months of 2013, with another EUR1.5 billion to be paid by the end of the year.
The central bank’s gold holdings were steady at 103.7 metric tons, but their value adjusted for international gold price fell to EUR3.3 billion, from EUR3.5 billion in August.
Romania’s overall international reserves were at EUR36.38 billion at the end of September, higher than EUR35.68 billion a month earlier.