{"id":507589,"date":"2026-01-06T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=507589"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:47:50","slug":"belarus-s-gold-and-foreign-exchange-reserves-exceed-14-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-s-gold-and-foreign-exchange-reserves-exceed-14-4-billion","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019s Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves Exceed $14.4 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s gold and foreign exchange reserves exceeded $14.4 billion as of January 1, according to data published by the National Bank of Belarus. In December, the reserves increased by $526.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The main factor behind the growth in December was an increase in reserve assets in foreign currency, which rose by $296.9 million to $5.54 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The value of monetary gold included in the reserves increased by $214.2 million over the month to $7.47 billion. The value of Special Drawing Rights rose by $15 million to $1.41 billion. The reserve position in the IMF and other assets remained unchanged at $0.03 million and $0.1 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2025, gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by $5.5 billion. The value of monetary gold rose by $2.95 billion, Special Drawing Rights by $66.9 million, and reserve assets in foreign currency increased by $2.49 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that by the end of 2025 the size of the reserves was twice the monetary policy target, which stood at $7.1 billion. By the end of 2026, the reserves are expected to amount to at least $9.2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s gold and foreign exchange reserves exceeded $14.4 billion as of January 1, according to data published by the National Bank of Belarus. In December, the reserves increased by $526.1 million. The main factor behind the growth in December was an increase in reserve assets in foreign currency, which rose by $296.9 million to $5.54 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/695cb01a75477.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019s Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves Exceed $14.4 Billion"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}