On 16 January, Central Bank Governor Hector Valdez Albizu reported that the Bank’s gross international reserves were at US$4.7 billion, a historic high for the Dominican Republic. Nonetheless, by the end of January, the figure had dropped by US$527 million. At the same time the exchange rate with the US dollar has continued to slide, slowly but sustainably and for the first time in many years broke the RD$43-1 barrier. The Central Bank attributes the slide to seasonal variations.
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