In October, the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank grew by 4.43%, or by 631.87 million dollars, amounting to 14,888.52 million dollars as of October 31, reports "Ukrainian News". \n \nAccording to the National Bank, the share of monetary gold in reserves as of October 31 was 251.26 million dollars (as of September 30 - 248.94 million dollars), cash foreign currency - 14.75 million dollars (as of September 30 - 14.73 million dollars), other reserves in foreign currency amounted to 14,608.49 million dollars (as of September 30 - 13,991.97 million dollars). \n \nIn October, the balance of NBU interventions on the interbank foreign exchange market was negative and amounted to - 42.5 million dollars. \n \nSince the beginning of this year, the NBU's gold and foreign exchange reserves grew by 56.3%, or by 5,363.62 million dollars from 9,524.9 to 14,888.52 million dollars. \n \nRecall that in September the NBU's international reserves decreased by 1.35%, or by 194.39 million dollars to 14,256.65 million dollars. \n \nIn 2004, the National Bank's gold and foreign exchange reserves grew by 37.3%, or by 2,587.9 million dollars from 6,937 to 9,524.9 million dollars; in 2003 they increased by 57.7%, or by 2,538 million dollars from 4,399 to 6,937 million dollars.