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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Aug 24, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on August 17, 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

16,095.6

288,919.4

80.9

–250.5

1,034.3

–5,478.1

290.9

–7,769.3

1,618.4

–29,300.4

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,295.8

256,656.8

77.8

–263.0*

990.7

–3,411.9

289.3

–6,276.5

1,285.5

–28,594.1

(b) Gold $

1,435.1

25,714.7

52.6

–1,308.4

17.0

–905.6

315.7

366.0

(c) SDRs @

242.7

4,356.6

2.1

8.3

14.1

–112.7

6.8

–72.4

31.4

–276.4

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

122.0

2,191.3

1.0

4.2

–23.1

–645.1

–22.2

–514.8

–14.2

–795.9

+ 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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