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International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity. December, 2012
1 Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets, market value. All figures are in millons of NOK unless stated otherwise.
2012:12 2012:11 2012:10 2012:9 2012:8 2012:7 2012:6 2012:5 2012:4 2012:3 2012:2 2012:1 2011:12
A Official reserve assets 288 589 315 739 312 886 318 293 315 148 331 547 350 245 336 772 333 095 311 454 289 650 299 814 291 153
(1) Foreign currency reserves 255 731 255 448 255 521 262 505 263 658 269 282 262 278 259 205 251 099 249 516 243 822 255 457 256 299
(a) Securities 252 058 250 957 249 533 256 325 258 400 263 178 255 228 252 474 244 928 246 211 237 375 248 180 244 586
of which: issuer headquartered in reporting country but located abroad .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. ..
(b) total currency and deposits with: 3 672 4 492 5 988 6 179 5 257 6 104 7 049 6 731 6 171 3 295 6 447 7 277 11 713
(i) other national central banks, BIS and IMF 3 477 4 341 5 866 6 016 5 073 5 904 6 170 6 573 6 001 3 100 6 165 6 933 11 528
(ii) banks headquartered in the reporting country .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. ..
of which: located abroad .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. ..
(iii) banks headquartered outside the reporting country 196 151 123 163 185 200 880 158 171 195 281 344 185
of which: located in the reporting country .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. 0
(2) IMF reserves position 8 628 8 692 9 186 9 055 8 925 9 474 9 315 9 256 5 216 5 004 4 842 4 880 4 943
(3) SDRs 12 853 13 053 12 998 13 011 13 037 13 412 13 366 13 611 13 126 13 034 12 739 13 329 13 955
(4) Gold .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .. .. ..
volume in millions of fine troy ounces .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. ..
(5) Other reserve assets 11 377 38 545 35 180 33 722 29 529 39 380 65 286 54 700 63 654 43 900 28 246 26 148 15 916
financial derivatives 2 -5 -1 -2 -3 -14 -2 -5 -6 40 -6 -85 -48
loan to nonbank nonresidents .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. 0 ..
other 11 375 38 550 35 180 33 724 29 531 39 394 65 288 54 705 63 661 43 860 28 246 26 233 15 964
B. Other foreign currency assets 2 857 2 946 2 902 4 120 2 945 5 564 3 422 4 616 8 299 9 203 10 024 9 562 8 711
securities not included in official reserve assets .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. ..
deposits not included in official reserve assets 32 26 22 22 21 24 26 26 20 28 20 27 16
loans not included in official reserve assets 2 825 2 862 2 878 2 872 2 869 2 927 2 948 4 370 8 188 7 819 8 406 8 463 8 533
financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets 0 3 -6 -6 3 -3 -1 0 0 0 4 -7 14
gold not included in official reserve assets .. .. .. .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. .. ..
other 1 55 8 1 232 52 2 616 450 221 90 1 357 1 599 1 073 162

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