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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Jun 08, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on June 1, 2012

Variation over

Week

End-March 2012

End-December 2011

Year

` Bn.

US$ Mn.

` Bn.

US$ Mn.

` Bn.

US$ Mn.

` Bn.

US$ Mn.

` Bn.

US$ Mn.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Total Reserves

15,998.0

285,856.9

18.7

–2,401.9

936.7

–8,540.6

193.3

–10,831.8

1,960.0

–27,046.3

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,153.0

253,093.7

–25.1

–1,312.5*

847.9

–6,975.0

146.5

–9,839.6

1,554.3

–27,814.4

(b) Gold $

1,443.5

25,585.0

45.5

–1,032.9

61.0

–1,438.1

25.4

–1,035.3

345.2

1,194.2

(c) SDRs @

243.1

4,346.5

–1.0

–34.2

14.5

–122.8

7.2

–82.5

35.8

-276.3

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

158.4

2,831.7

–0.7

–22.3

13.3

–4.7

14.2

125.6

24.7

-149.8

+ Excludes ` 37.6 billion/US$ 673 million invested in foreign currency denominated bonds issued by IIFC (UK).
* Foreign currency assets expressed in US dollar terms include the effect of appreciation/depreciation of non-US currencies (such as Euro, Sterling, Yen) held in reserves. For details, please refer to the Current Statistics section of the RBI Bulletin.
** Reserve Position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), i.e., Reserve Tranche Position (RTP) which was shown as a memo item from May 23, 2003 to March 26, 2004 has been included in the reserves from the week ended April 2, 2004 in keeping with the international best practice.
@ Includes SDR 3,082.5 million (equivalent to US$ 4,883 million) allocated under general allocation and SDR 214.6 million (equivalent to US$ 340 million) allocated under special allocation by IMF done on August 28, 2009 and September 9, 2009, respectively.
$ Includes `314.6 billion (US$ 6,699 million) reflecting the purchase of 200 metric tonnes of gold from IMF on November 3, 2009.


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