{"id":573332,"date":"2026-09-03T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=573332"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:59:07","slug":"belarus-gold-and-foreign-exchange-reserves-again-exceed-15-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-gold-and-foreign-exchange-reserves-again-exceed-15-billion","title":{"rendered":"Belarus&#8217; Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves Again Exceed $15 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217; gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by $1.048 billion in August, reaching $15.24 billion as of Sept. 1, the National Bank of Belarus said. The previous time the country&#8217;s reserves exceeded $15 billion was on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in reserves in August was mainly due to a $929.8 million rise in the value of monetary gold, driven by higher prices for the precious metal. The value of special drawing rights increased by $9.3 million, while foreign-currency reserve assets rose by $108.7 million. The reserve position in the IMF and other assets, amounting to $0.03 million and $0.1 million, respectively, remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the reserves have increased by $820.2 million, including a $445.2 million rise in the value of monetary gold, while special drawing rights declined by $1.9 million. Foreign-currency reserve assets increased by $376.9 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus&#8217; gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by $1.048 billion in August, reaching $15.24 billion as of Sept. 1, the National Bank of Belarus said. The previous time the country&#8217;s reserves exceeded $15 billion was on June 1. The increase in reserves in August was mainly due to a $929.8 million rise in the value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":500418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a9928cf65507.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019 Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves Again Exceed $15 Billion"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573332","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}