Foreign exchange inflows increased to EUR3.56 billion in January, from EUR1.39 billion in December last year, while total outflows rose to EUR3.2 billion, from EUR1.28 billion in the previous month.
Inflows included $2 billion the Finance Ministry raised at a two-part US dollar bond issue in international markets, as well as EUR278.7 billion following a Eurobond sale on the local market.
The central bank’s gold holdings were steady at 103.7 metric tons, but their value adjusted for international gold price rose to EUR3.07 billion, from EUR2.9 billion in December.
Romania’s overall international reserves were at EUR35.98 billion in January, up from EUR35.43 billion a month earlier.
The payments due on public and publicly guaranteed external debt in February amount to some EUR1.17 billion, the data showed.