Foreign exchange inflows increased to EUR2.2 million in October, from EUR1.86 billion in September, while total outflows fell to EUR722 million, from EUR943 million in the previous month.
Inflows included EUR700 million drawn from the World Bank under an agreement signed in 2012, as well as EUR500 million raised in a reopening of its September 2020-dated Eurobond in international markets and another EUR150 million attracted at a local sale of euro-denominated bonds.
The central bank’s gold holdings were steady at 103.7 metric tons, but their value adjusted for international gold price fell to EUR3.25 billion, from EUR3.3 billion in September.
Romania’s overall international reserves were at EUR37.81 billion in October, up from EUR36.38 billion a month earlier.
The payments due on public and publicly guaranteed external debt in November amount to some EUR2.5 billion, the data showed.