An open-market purchase of foreign bonds to increase a central bank's international reserves:

A. increases the central bank's liabilities and decreases its assets.
B. increases the central bank's liabilities and assets.
C. decreases the central bank's assets and liabilities.
D. increases the central bank's assets but decreases its liabilities.

Answer: B

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