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S.Korea injects $4 bln to banks via Fed credit
Reuters - 2 hours 49 minutes ago
SEOUL, Dec 2 - The South Korean central bank said on Tuesday that it had injected all of a planned $4 billion to local banks using its dollar credit line at the U.S. Federal Reserve for the first time.
The Bank of Korea said that 15 local banks tendered for $7.81 billion in the auction, with the average annualised rate of the 84-day foreign currency loan coming in at 6.84 percent.
The South Korean central bank tied up a $30 billion currency swap facility with the U.S. central bank in October, along with Brazil, Mexico and Singapore, as fears of a possible currency crisis mounted in the wake of a global dollar squeeze.
The decision to use the U.S. credit line came after the Bank of Korea heavily intervened to defend the won in vain, only to see its foreign reserves drained by $52 billion over the past seven months since the end of March.
Details of the nation's foreign reserves at the end of November will be released early on Wednesday, with many analysts warning they may have fallen below $200 billion for the first time in nearly 3 years.
The won has plunged nearly 40 percent against the dollar so far this year, hitting its lowest in almost 11 years against the U.S. currency. (Reporting by Seo Eun-kyung; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner and Keiron Henderson
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