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Weekly Statistical Supplement


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Date : Nov 09, 2012
Foreign Exchange Reserves

Item

As on November 2, 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

15,808.3

294,340.5

–1.8

–950.3

747.0

–57.0

3.6

–2,348.2

370.2

–20,324.4

(a) Foreign Currency Assets +

13,923.7

259,459.0

–45.0

–1,005.8*

618.6

–609.7

–82.8

–3,474.3

153.0

–21,117.8

(b) Gold $

1,525.5

28,189.3

43.0

56.4

143.0

1,166.2

107.4

1,569.0

211.1

1,293.0

(c) SDRs @

237.6

4,428.4

–0.1

–4.1

9.0

–40.9

1.7

–0.6

14.2

–123.1

(d) Reserve Position in the IMF**

121.5

2,263.8

0.3

3.2

–23.6

–572.6

–22.7

–442.3

–8.1

–376.5

+ Excludes ` 42.4 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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