Venezuela's central bank reserves include 11.46 million ounces of gold.
But he advocated, as he has done many times before, a change in the law so that interest could be paid on bank reserves.
But Argentina's central bank reserves have fallen nearly 50 percent this year, to about $9.5 billion.
Neither commercial nor consumer loans are any longer limited by bank reserves.
We've always had regulations on bank reserves and so on.
So the money that would have gone on gilts then ends up as bank reserves somewhere instead.
Has broad power to set requirements for bank reserves.
By 1991, the daily flow had reached 55 times this base of bank reserves.
For example, bank reserves fell by $700 million in May.
The purpose is to address a seasonal rise in the shortage of bank reserves.