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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Dec 07, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on November 30, 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

16,058.5

294,509.7

–232.5

–471.3

997.2

112.2

253.8

–2,179.0

279.1

–12,334.4

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,177.5

260,012.5

–219.7

–125.7*

872.4

–56.2

171.0

–2,920.8

226.1

–11,679.1

(b) Gold $

1,516.0

27,803.1

–9.5

–386.2

133.5

780.0

97.9

1,182.8

53.1

–237.7

(c) SDRs @

241.5

4,429.7

–2.2

26.9

12.9

–39.6

5.6

0.7

10.4

–71.6

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

123.5

2,264.4

–1.1

13.7

–21.6

–572.0

–20.7

–441.7

–10.5

–346.0

+ Excludes ` 43.1 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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