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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Sep 21, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on September 14, 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

16,142.0

294,476.8

–78.1

2,436.6

1,080.7

79.3

337.3

–2,211.9

1,146.3

–22,286.3

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,312.1

261,516.7

–78.2

2,338.3

1,007.0

1,448.0

305.6

–1,416.6

977.6

–19,386.7

(b) Gold $

1,462.1

26,239.4

79.6

–783.7

44.0

–380.9

158.9

–2,079.3

(c) SDRs @

244.7

4,471.6

0.1

65.4

16.1

2.3

8.8

42.6

28.7

–77.8

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

123.1

2,249.1

32.9

–22.0

–587.3

–21.1

–457.0

–18.9

–742.5

+ Excludes ` 43.2 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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