The nation’s foreign-exchange reserves hit a new record high at the end of February for the third straight month, rising $6.67 billion from a month earlier to $485.27 billion, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
The rise was due mainly to currency market intervention, which totaled more than 500 billion yen, or $4 billion, a ministry official said in a briefing to reporters.
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