Yemen’s foreign currency reserves increase to $8.1billion

Yemen’s foreign currency reserves increased to $8.1 billion in the first quarter of 2008, according to the Central Bank of Yemen. The increase reached $544 million at the same period of 2007. 

An economic report mentioned that the foreign assets of the banking system rose at the end of last March by 3.25% to reach $1.797 trillion compared with $1.740 trillion for February of the same year.

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