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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Jul 13, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on July 6, 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

15,963.0

287,622.4

–366.5

–2,369.8

901.7

–6,775.1

158.3

–9,066.3

2,006.3

–26,997.1

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,111.9

254,636.4

–357.4

–2,322.0*

806.8

–5,432.3

105.4

–8,296.9

1,592.5

–27,777.7

(b) Gold $

1,450.6

25,760.2

68.1

–1,262.9

32.5

–860.1

347.4

1,091.8

(c) SDRs @

241.1

4,350.3

–5.5

–28.8

12.5

–119.0

5.2

–78.7

38.0

–232.1

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

159.4

2,875.5

–3.6

–19.0

14.3

39.1

15.2

169.4

28.4

–79.1

+ Excludes ` 43.8 billion/US$ 790 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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