Official Reserves
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Official reserves
Holdings of gold and foreign currencies by official monetary institutions.
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Official reserves:
The holdings of gold, foreign currency and Special Drawing Rights (SDR) of a country's Central Bank.
Français: Réserves officielles
Español: Reservas oficiales ...
Official reserves - The central government's holdings of foreign currencies.
A surplus or deficit implied changing official reserves, so that something might ultimately have to change.
Balance of payments surplus ...
Current Account = Capital Account + Change in Official Reserves
Here the current account can be thought of as exports minus imports, which is often identified as the trade balance, plus net income on foreign assets and transfers.
The balance of payments includes commercial and government transactions for goods and services, international direct investment and bank transactions, and sales or purchases of foreign currencies (or "official reserves").
To meet this obligation, countries maintained a stock of official reserves, in the form of gold or foreign currencies, that they could use to support their own currencies.
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Official Secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand ...
Special drawing right [r]: an international reserve asset, that can be exchanged for usable currencies, that is issued to member countries by the International Monetary Fund to supplement their official reserves, ...
According to IMF (International Monetary Fund) accounting standards, central banks can include swapped or leased gold as a part of their official reserves, a practice that would lead to double counting of gold.
The balance of payments is typically divided into three accounts-current, capital, and official reserves-and these can show a surplus or a deficit. There can be no surplus or deficit on the overall balance of payments.
Debit
Recorded as negative (-) in the balance of payments, any transaction that gives rise to a payment out of the country, such as an import, the purchase of an asset (including official reserves), or lending to foreigners. Opposite of credit.
When a firm goes public and makes an offering of stock to the market. Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
An agency of the U.S. Treasury department responsible for the US savings and loan industry.
Official reserves ...
 See also: Expense, Balance of payments, Bills, Direct investment, Federal reserve board
  
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