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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Oct 19, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on October 12, 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

15,539.8

294,875.8

280.0

–163.7

478.5

478.3

–264.9

–1,812.9

–35.9

–22,623.1

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

13,703.4

260,026.6

273.5

–150.1*

398.3

–42.1

–303.1

–2,906.7

–117.3

–21,625.9

(b) Gold $

1,482.5

28,132.9

100.0

1,109.8

64.4

1,512.6

79.8

–533.8

(c) SDRs @

234.4

4,447.9

4.3

–9.0

5.8

–21.4

–1.5

18.9

11.4

–95.9

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

119.5

2,268.4

2.2

–4.6

–25.6

–568.0

–24.7

–437.7

–9.8

–367.5

+ Excludes ` 41.6 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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