foreign exchange reserves

"Maybe their foreign-exchange reserves are even lower than my computer model suggests."

Taiwan, for example, is growing increasingly embarrassed by its official foreign-exchange reserves.

The foreign debt stands near $4 billion; foreign-exchange reserves cover less than one month of imports.

In a strict sense, foreign-exchange reserves should only include foreign currency deposits and bonds.

It is also backed by $144 billion in foreign-exchange reserves, making the risk of an external debt crisis minimal.

And there is renewed concern over the relatively low level of South Africa's foreign-exchange reserves.

The trade surplus last year reached a record $43.6 billion, while foreign-exchange reserves are still at a robust $145 billion.

The Bank of Israel holds $78 billion of foreign-exchange reserves.

Strong export earnings and a large increase in foreign-exchange reserves were the most noticeable results of this economic expansion.

At current rates of depletion, we estimate Iraq will have nearly depleted its available foreign-exchange reserves by next spring.

Hong Kong has huge foreign-exchange reserves, solid banks and the most stable currency in the region.

Egypt's hard-currency debt was now approaching $1.5 billion and its foreign-exchange reserves were down to $100 million.

Indeed, the amassing of some $125 billion in foreign-exchange reserves has been central to China's success at pursuing export-led growth.

Reserve Tranche Position is accounted among a country's foreign-exchange reserves.

Exports have soared, and so China's foreign-exchange reserves are rising, improving the nation's ability to repay its foreign debt.

Japan's central bank has the second largest foreign-exchange reserves after People's Republic of China.

The Argentine peso is freely convertible with the dollar, and the central bank has $23.7 billion in foreign-exchange reserves.

List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves (excluding gold)

We expect Baghdad's foreign-exchange reserves to become extremely tight, leaving it little cash left with which to entice potential sanctions-busters.

The political deadlock not only keeps the country in turmoil but discourages foreign investment, which dried up the treasury's foreign-exchange reserves.

Currency trading has grown by 50 percent in three years, to an estimated $1 trillion daily, about as much as central banks' foreign-exchange reserves.

Although foreign-exchange reserves can earn interest, expanding them is potentially inflationary and exposes a country to increased currency risks.

Its foreign-exchange reserves are rising.

LEAD: Taiwain's foreign-exchange reserves have hit a new high of $50 billion.

So far this month, economists estimate that some $8.5 billion of the country's $70 billion in foreign-exchange reserves have been sold to prop up the real.