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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Jul 20, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on July 13, 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

15,977.3

286,749.7

14.3

–872.7

916.0

–7,647.8

172.6

–9,939.0

1,967.6

–27,758.3

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,167.5

254,536.7

55.6

–99.7*

862.4

–5,532.0

161.0

–8,396.6

1,596.7

–27,762.7

(b) Gold $

1,450.6

25,760.2

68.1

–1,262.9

32.5

–860.1

347.4

1,091.8

(c) SDRs @

241.0

4,329.2

–0.1

–21.1

12.4

–140.1

5.1

–99.8

36.9

–255.2

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

118.2

2,123.6

–41.2

–751.9

–26.9

–712.8

–26.0

–582.5

–13.4

–832.2

+ Excludes ` 44.0 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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