CBR: October macroeconomic forecast upgrades 2024 growth, but will slow in 2025
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North Macedonia’s gross foreign reserves went up by 8.4% y/y to €3.643bn at the end of December 2021, accelerating from a 6% y/y increase in the previous month, preliminary central bank data indicated on January 5.
Compared with the previous month, forex reserves rose 2% at end-December, after dropping 2.2% m/m in November, data indicated.
In terms of financial instruments, most of the foreign reserves are in securities (70.1%), followed by currencies and deposits (20.1%) and monetary gold (9.8%).
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Researchers at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which has been tracking aid to Ukraine's war effort, have calculated hypothetical scenarios of what they believe Ukraine aid could look like in 2025, once Trump takes office in January.
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