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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Aug 31, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on August 24, 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

16,081.2

290,179.3

–14.4

1,259.9

1,019.9

–4,218.2

276.5

–6,509.4

1,431.1

–28,995.3

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,281.0

257,872.5

–14.8

1,215.7*

975.9

–2,196.2

274.5

–5,060.8

1,101.7

–28,322.2

(b) Gold $

1,435.1

25,714.7

52.6

–1,308.4

17.0

–905.6

315.7

366.0

(c) SDRs @

242.9

4,386.0

0.2

29.4

14.3

–83.3

7.0

–43.0

29.2

–254.5

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

122.2

2,206.1

0.2

14.8

–22.9

–630.3

–22.0

–500.0

–15.5

–784.6

+ 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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