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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Sep 14, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on September 7, 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

16,220.1

292,040.2

35.5

1,578.6

1,158.8

–2,357.3

415.4

–4,648.5

1,551.2

–24,457.0

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,390.3

259,178.4

35.7

1,558.3*

1,085.2

–890.3

383.8

–3,754.9

1,371.4

–21,522.5

(b) Gold $

1,462.1

26,239.4

79.6

–783.7

44.0

–380.9

158.9

–2,079.3

(c) SDRs @

244.6

4,406.2

–0.2

13.5

16.0

–63.1

8.7

–22.8

33.7

–140.9

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

123.1

2,216.2

6.8

–22.0

–620.2

–21.1

–489.9

–12.8

–714.3

+ Excludes ` 43.9 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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