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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Nov 30, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on November
23, 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

16,291.0

294,981.0

174.2

1,454.7

1,229.7

583.5

486.3

–1,707.7

501.0

–9,384.9

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,397.2

260,138.2

171.4

1,447.4*

1,092.1

69.5

390.7

–2,795.1

291.6

–10,238.5

(b) Gold $

1,525.5

28,189.3

143.0

1,166.2

107.4

1,569.0

211.1

1,293.0

(c) SDRs @

243.7

4,402.8

1.8

4.8

15.1

–66.5

7.8

–26.2

9.5

–86.6

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

124.6

2,250.7

1.0

2.5

–20.5

–585.7

–19.6

–455.4

–11.2

–352.8

+ Excludes ` 43.7 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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