Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.19
By Nigar Guliyeva – Trend:
The gold and foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank of Kazakhstan grew by 10.2% to $ 33 billion by the end of September 2017.
The foreign currency assets of the National Fund in foreign currency amounted to $57 billion, said Daniyar Akishev, the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan announced abut this at a governmental meeting "On the results of socio-economic development and implementation of the budget of Kazakhstan for 9 months of 2017" in Astana.
In 2016, Kazakhstan's international reserves decreased by $ 487 million (-0.53%) and amounted to $90.776 billion. The figure was $ 91.263 billion in 2015.
Most of the international reserves of Kazakhstan are the assets of the National Fund of the country. during 2016, they decreased by 3.74% and amounted to $ 61.019 billion as of December 31, 2016.
The remaining part of international reserves is formed at the expense of the National Bank's gold and currency reserve - $ 29.757 billion. During the year they increased by 6.77%