Cbank halves dollar’s share in FX reserves to 21.9% Jun 2018

MOSCOW, Jan 9 (PRIME) -- Russia’s central bank reduced the U.S. dollar’s share in foreign exchange reserves by 24.4 percentage points on the year to 21.9% as of the end of June 2018 and raised the share of the euro by 6.9 percentage points to 32%, the regulator said in a report Wednesday.

The regulator also raised investments in gold to 16.7% from 16.1%.

The share of the Chinese yuan in foreign exchange reserves grew to 14.7% from 0.1% as of the end of June 2017.

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