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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Jun 29, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on June 22, 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

16,434.2

288,627.7

280.6

–768.4

1,372.9

–5,769.8

629.5

–8,061.0

2,544.6

–20,392.4

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,577.0

255,783.1

273.0

–743.8*

1,271.9

–4,285.6

570.5

–7,150.2

2,124.4

–21,310.0

(b) Gold $

1,443.5

25,585.0

61.0

–1,438.1

25.4

–1,035.3

345.2

1,194.2

(c) SDRs @

249.1

4,370.7

4.6

–14.8

20.5

–98.6

13.2

–58.3

43.2

–211.2

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

164.6

2,888.9

3.0

–9.8

19.5

52.5

20.4

182.8

31.8

–65.4

+ Excludes ` 38.4 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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