That is one reason the bank reserve figures are getting attention.

But Argentina's central bank reserves have fallen nearly 50 percent this year, to about $9.5 billion.

Possible measures include further increases in bank reserve requirements and maybe higher interest rates.

Venezuela's central bank reserves include 11.46 million ounces of gold.

Credit money is created by banks entirely separately from their central bank reserve position.

Neither commercial nor consumer loans are any longer limited by bank reserves.

We've always had regulations on bank reserves and so on.

The purpose is to address a seasonal rise in the shortage of bank reserves.

Has broad power to set requirements for bank reserves.

The plan would require regulators to intervene once bank reserves begin to slip.

This is evidenced by no growth in bank reserves and in M1.

For the first 12 days of the bank reserve accounting period ending today, the overnight rate has averaged 6.69 percent.

The Fed bought the securities to meet bank reserve needs that are strained at this time of year.

So the money that would have gone on gilts then ends up as bank reserves somewhere instead.

But he advocated, as he has done many times before, a change in the law so that interest could be paid on bank reserves.

This reduces bank reserve levels, pushing up short-term interest rates and slowing economic growth.

Until last week, they said, the rate averaged closer to 6 3/4 percent because of seasonal drains on bank reserves.

But when it nearly ran out of central bank reserves in 1997, investors panicked and the currency melted down.

They haven't been converted into cash, but into bank reserves which attract interest.

Aside from this use, the coins were retained in vaults as part of bank reserves.

Federal funds transactions by regulated financial institutions neither increase nor decrease total bank reserves.

Central Bank reserves have declined to about $15 billion, and some $5 billion of that is in gold, which cannot readily be spent.

The sellers of financial assets have their accounts credited and there is a corresponding increase in bank reserves.

The disciplines are data such as money supply figures, gross national product relationships and bank reserve trends.

Increasing bank reserve requirements and sterilization: some countries pursue fixed exchange rate policy.