{"id":530851,"date":"2026-04-03T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=530851"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:05:18","slug":"belarus-gold-and-foreign-exchange-reserves-fall-by-1-1-billion-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-gold-and-foreign-exchange-reserves-fall-by-1-1-billion-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves Fall by $1.1 Billion in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019 gold and foreign exchange reserves decreased by $1.1 billion in March. A decline in gold prices interrupted the string of records observed in recent months. According to the National Bank of Belarus, as of April 1 the reserves stood at $15.24 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The decrease in reserves in March was mainly due to a reduction in the value of monetary gold included in them, although other components of the reserves also declined.<\/p>\n<p>The value of gold included in the reserves fell by $1.05 billion in March, to $7.98 billion. The value of special drawing rights decreased by $11.9 million to $1.4 billion, while reserve assets in foreign currency declined by $58.5 million to $5.86 billion. The reserve position in the IMF and other assets, amounting to $0.03 billion and $0.1 billion respectively, remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the decline in March, the reserves remain $819.1 million higher than at the beginning of the year. In particular, the value of monetary gold has increased by $513.2 million compared to January 1, while foreign currency reserve assets have grown by $317.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019 gold and foreign exchange reserves decreased by $1.1 billion in March. A decline in gold prices interrupted the string of records observed in recent months. According to the National Bank of Belarus, as of April 1 the reserves stood at $15.24 billion. The decrease in reserves in March was mainly due to a reduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":530850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69cf74c20e0a0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019 Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves Fall by $1.1 Billion in March"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530851","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=530851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}