Sri Lanka’s gross official reserves fell US$116.39 million to US$ 7,526.0 million in January 2020 from US$ 7,642.39 in December 2019, latest Central Bank data showed.

By the end of January, foreign currency reserves were 6,616.37million dollars while the reserve position in the IMF was 66.18 million dollars.

Special Drawing Rights were 7.3 million, reserves in Gold were 935.6 million and other reserve assets were US$ 1 million.

Meanwhile, During the year up to 07 February 2020, the Sri Lanka rupee appreciated against the US dollar by 0.2%