International reserves and foreign currency liquidity, January 2017, preliminary figures

Only at the national level.

Monthly:

Preliminary figures for total international reserves will be published on the fifth working after the end of the reference month.

Final figures for international reserves and foreign currency liquidity will be published on the 21st (or the following business day) after the end of the reference month.

International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Not relevant

Norway adheres to the International Monetary Funds’ (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) which among other things obliges the member countries’ central banks to publish a detailed overview of international reserves and foreign currency liquidity.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), Norges Bank and Statistics Norway.

Not relevant

Coherence with Norges Banks’ accounts.

The Statistics Act § 2-2

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Section I. Includes international reserves and other foreign exchange claims based on market values from the asset side of the balance sheet.

Section II. Actual future short-term net foreign exchange flows from instruments that are not specified in Section I. Cash flows are stated at nominal value.

Section III. Conditional/possible future short-terms net foreign exchange flows to non-residents or residents.

Section IV: Specifications/other relevant information about:

i. positions and flows that are not explained in Section I-III but are considered relevant to assessing the reserves, the foreign currency liquidity position and risk exposure;

ii. additional details about positions and flows explained in Sections I-III;

iii. positions and flows broken down or valued in another way than in Sections I-III.

The data are published in millions of NOK at approximate market value or nominal value. The Government petroleum Fund is not included in the figures. Norges Bank sold most of the gold reserves in the beginning of 2004. The remaining gold is not considered as a part of the official reserves.

The data are obtained from Norges Banks’ accounts.

Electronic reporting forms.

Data is controlled by Statistics Norway and Norges Bank.

The data are generally considered to be final at the time of release, and are usually not subject to revision. In the event of revisions, the monthly data become final at the time of the release of the monthly balance sheet of Norges Bank, 10 Norwegian working days after the end of the reference month. The monthly balance sheet is immediately published on the Norges Bank website (http://www.norges-bank.no). Revisions for earlier periods are usually made only for the end of the year, with monthly figures remaining unchanged.

Not relevant

Not relevant

Statistical releases older than 7 April 2017.

Time series will be published.