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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (233840)4/6/2003 8:23:42 PM
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Japan March Foreign Reserves $496.18B; Up $10.92B On Mo

Japan Foreign Reserves -2: Follows March Interventions

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's reserves of convertible foreign currencies, gold and International Monetary Fund special drawing rights in March were up $10.92 billion from the previous month to $496.18 billion, the Finance Ministry said Monday.

The rise likely was due largely to a series of currency market interventions during the month in a bid to stem the yen's rise due to the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

Admitting for the third time this year that it intervened in the market, the MOF said last week it covertly sold some Y1.2 trillion in late February through the first third of March. Authorities sold yen for dollars and euros on multiple occasions during the period to curb foreign exchange volatility, which was particularly fierce in the lead-up to the war, the ministry said.

The March rise follows February's increase of $6.67 billion from January.


04-06-03 2003ET
Dow Jones Newswires
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