{"id":271414,"date":"2026-03-18T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=271414"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:05:33","slug":"armenias-gross-reserves-rose-to-5-5-billion-in-february-providing-4-1-months-of-import-coverage-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/03\/18\/271414\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s gross reserves rose to $5.5 billion in February, providing 4.1 months of import coverage \u2013 WB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 18. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Gross reserves in Armenia increased, reaching $5.5 billion at the end of February, equivalent to 4.1 months of import coverage, according to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 March 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank of Armenia, Armenia&#8217;s gross international reserves as of February 2026 amounted to $5,520.7 million, compared to $5,185.5 million in January 2026 and $3,371.5 million in February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WB study notes that in February, the Armenian dram strengthened against the US dollar by 0.7% (MoM) and weakened against the euro by 0.2% (MoM). &#8220;On average, the dram strengthened by 4.6% (y-o-y) against the US dollar in February, while it weakened by 8.4% (y-o-y) and 14.2% (y-o-y) against the euro and the Russian ruble, respectively,&#8221; the bank&#8217;s analysts note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Armstat, the average settlement exchange rate of the Armenian dram to the US dollar in February 2026 was 377.6 drams (395.6 drams in February 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross reserves in Armenia increased, reaching $5.5 billion at the end of February, equivalent to 4.1 months of import coverage, according to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 March 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":162270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}