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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Jun 15, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on June 8, 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

15,936.4

287,378.7

–61.6

1,521.8

875.1

–7,018.8

131.7

–9,310.0

2,043.2

–23,124.2

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

14,094.3

254,593.5

–58.7

1,499.8*

789.2

–5,475.2

87.8

–8,339.8

1,639.3

–23,917.4

(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 @

241.4

4,359.8

–1.7

13.3

12.8

–109.5

5.5

–69.2

34.8

–261.1

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

157.2

2,840.4

–1.2

8.7

12.1

4.0

13.0

134.3

23.9

–139.9

+ Excludes ` 37.3 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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