CAIRO (AP) Egypt's central bank says the country's foreign currency reserves dropped slightly, to $18.59 billion at the end of October.
The announcement was reported on the central bank's official website on Thursday.
The level represents a slight drop from July, when foreign reserves reached $18.8 billion their highest level in almost two years.
That increase came after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait pledged a total of $12 billion dollars in aid to Egypt following the popularly-backed July 3 coup that ousted the country's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The three Gulf countries had been at odds with Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood group.