KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara’s international reserves fell marginally to US$115.8bil as at Feb 15, from US$116.1bil as at Jan 31.

       “The reserves position is sufficient to finance 6.1 months of imports of goods and services1, and is 1.2 times total short-term external debt,” the central bank said in a statement.

       Bank Negara said the main components of the international reserves were foreign currency reserves (US$102.4bil), IMF reserves position (US$1.4bil), special drawing rights (SDRs) (US$6bil), gold (US$2.3bil), and other reserve assets (US$3.7bil).