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Development of the<br />
OeNBÕs Currency<br />
Positions in the Financial<br />
Year <strong>2004</strong><br />
Net Currency Position (including gold)<br />
Notes to the<br />
Balance Sheet<br />
Assets<br />
1 Gold and gold receivables<br />
Closing balance Dec. 31, <strong>2004</strong> EUR 3,179.013 million<br />
Closing balance Dec. 31, 2003 EUR 3,372.243 million<br />
Change —EUR 193.230 million<br />
—5.7%<br />
This item comprises the OeNBÕs<br />
holdings of physical and nonphysical<br />
gold, which amounted to 307 tons<br />
on December 31, <strong>2004</strong>. At a market<br />
value of EUR 321.562 per fine ounce<br />
(i.e. EUR 10,338.46 per kg of fine<br />
gold), the OeNBÕs gold holdings were<br />
worth EUR 3,179.013 million at the<br />
balance sheet date.<br />
The valuation on December 31,<br />
<strong>2004</strong>, resulted in unrealized valuation<br />
losses of EUR 114.023 million.<br />
Dec. 31, 2003 Dec. 31, <strong>2004</strong> Change<br />
EUR million EUR million EUR million %<br />
Gold and gold receivables<br />
Claims on non-euro area residents<br />
3,372.243 3,179.013 —193.230 —5.7<br />
denominated in foreign currency 1<br />
Claims on euro area residents<br />
7,905.320 7,129.312 —776.008 —9.8<br />
denominated in foreign currency 876.766 746.609 —130.157 —14.8<br />
Other assets 20.309 22.932 +2.623 +12.9<br />
less:<br />
Liabilities to euro area residents denominated<br />
in foreign currency<br />
Liabilities to non-euro area residents denominated<br />
76.492 0.047 —76.445 —99.9<br />
in foreign currency<br />
Counterpart of Special Drawing Rights allocated<br />
372.099 0.156 —371.943 —99.9<br />
by the IMF<br />
Off-balance sheet instrumentsÕ revaluation<br />
210.915 204.040 —6.875 —3.3<br />
differences 4.109 0.712 —3.397 —82.7<br />
Other liabilities<br />
Revaluation accounts<br />
0.063 — —0.063 —100.0<br />
2<br />
74.912 59.326 —15.586 —20.8<br />
Total 11,436.048 10,813.585 —622.463 —5.4<br />
1<br />
Excluding the share of the IMF quota which was not drawn, expressed in euro.<br />
2<br />
Resulting from the change in net unrealized exchange rate gains on foreign currency-denominated securities on December 31, 2003, and December 31,<br />
<strong>2004</strong>.<br />
In <strong>2004</strong>, 10 tons of gold were sold<br />
to the Bank for International Settlements<br />
(BIS) at EUR 107.454 million.<br />
The sales were effected within the<br />
framework of the Joint Statement<br />
on Gold concluded by 14 central<br />
banks (including the OeNB) and the<br />
ECB in March <strong>2004</strong>. The price gains<br />
of EUR 84.551 million realized on<br />
the sales were disclosed under item<br />
2.1 Realized gains/losses arising from<br />
financial operations of the profit and<br />
loss account.<br />
The Joint Statement on Gold<br />
provides for annual sales over a<br />
period of five years under a concerted<br />
program; annual sales are not<br />
to exceed 500 tons and total sales<br />
over the five-year period are limited<br />
to 2,500 tons. Moreover, gold leasings<br />
and the use of gold futures and<br />
options will not be increased over<br />
the period.<br />
Financial Statements<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2004</strong> ×<br />
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