The financial regulator has worsened the estimate of the gold and foreign exchange reserves by $49 mln.
The gold and foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank in February 2016 increased by $48 mln (0.4%) up to $13.489 bln, the press-service of the financial regulator reports.
However, on March 3, it was reported that the international reserves of Ukraine have increased by $13.538 bln.
Thus, the updated data of the National Bank on the level of reserves for the beginning of March for $49 mln are lower than preliminary previous ones.
As per results of December 2015, the National Bank reported on the growth of international reserves for 152 million.
Before then, in connection with delay in allocation of regular tranches of the IMF the financial regulator worsened the forecast of international reserves for the end of 2015 from expected USD 15-18 billion to a little more than USD 13 mln.
