Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Nov 02, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on October 26, 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

15,810.1

295,290.8

–20.5

55.6

748.8

893.3

5.4

–1,397.9

165.6

–25,097.9

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

13,968.7

260,464.8

–18.2

86.9*

663.6

396.1

–37.8

–2,468.5

82.1

–23,979.9

(b) Gold $

1,482.5

28,132.9

100.0

1,109.8

64.4

1,512.6

79.8

–533.8

(c) SDRs @

237.7

4,432.5

–1.5

–20.7

9.1

–36.8

1.8

3.5

12.9

–173.1

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

121.2

2,260.6

–0.8

–10.6

–23.9

–575.8

–23.0

–445.5

–9.2

–411.1

+ Excludes ` 42.4 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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