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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Sep 07, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on August 31, 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

16,184.6

290,461.6

103.4

282.3

1,123.3

–3,935.9

379.9

–6,227.1

1,457.3

–30,322.7

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,354.6

257,620.1

73.6

–252.4*

1,049.5

–2,448.6

348.1

–5,313.2

1,278.9

–27,254.7

(b) Gold $

1,462.1

26,239.4

27.0

524.7

79.6

–783.7

44.0

–380.9

158.9

–2,079.3

(c) SDRs @

244.8

4,392.7

1.9

6.7

16.2

–76.6

8.9

–36.3

32.9

–223.2

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

123.1

2,209.4

0.9

3.3

–22.0

–627.0

–21.1

–496.7

–13.4

–765.5

+ 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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