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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Jun 22, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on June 15, 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

16,153.6

289,396.1

217.2

2,017.4

1,092.3

–5,001.4

348.9

–7,292.6

2,197.6

–21,165.9

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,304.0

256,526.9

209.7

1,933.4 *

998.9

–3,541.8

297.5

–6,406.4

1,786.1

–22,083.0

(b) Gold $

1,443.5

25,585.0

61.0

–1,438.1

25.4

–1,035.3

345.2

1,194.2

(c) SDRs @

244.5

4,385.5

3.1

25.7

15.9

–83.8

8.6

–43.5

37.9

–211.7

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

161.6

2,898.7

4.4

58.3

16.5

62.3

17.4

192.6

28.4

–65.4

+ Excludes ` 37.5 billion/US$ 673 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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