The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $2.518 billion to touch a lifetime high of $575.29 billion in the week ended November 20, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week ended November 13, the reserves had surged by $4.277 billion to $572.771 billion. In the reporting week, the increase in the forex kitty was on account of a rise in foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major component of the overall reserves.
The country's foreign exchange reserves increased by $1.739 billion to $582.037 billion in the week ended on March 12, the RBI data showed. In the previous week ended March 5, the reserves had declined by $4.255 billion to $580.299 billion. The reserves had touched a record high of $590.185 billion in the week ended January 29, 2021.
The reserves had touched a life-time high of $426.028 billion in the week to April 13, 2018.
The country's foreign exchange reserves fell by $249 million to $583.697 billion in the week ended February 12, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week, the reserves had declined by $6.24 billion to stand at $583.945 billion. It had touched a record high of $590.185 billion in the week ended January 29, 2021.
Gold reserves were down by $580 million in the reporting week to $37.440 billion.
The forex reserves rose for the third consecutive week, surging by a robust $2.691 billion to $286.26 billion on a healthy jump in foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank said.
The reserves had jumped $2.03 billion to $277.38 billion in the previous week.
The value of the gold reserves increased $78.2 million to $22.764 billion
'Growth for some companies has been hard to come by and this is a smart way to get there.'
Forex reserves declined sharply by $5.89 billion to $617.3 billion for the week ending January 5 after rising for four consecutive weeks, according to the weekly Reserve Bank data released on Friday. So far this fiscal, the reserves have increased $55.72 billion, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). In the previous reporting week ended December 29, the reserves rose $2.759 billion to $623.2 billion, the highest so far this fiscal.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined by a huge $2.23 billion to $275.49 billion on a sharp dip in the foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.
The country's foreign exchange reserves soared by $16.663 billion to touch a lifetime high of $633.56 billion in the week ended August 27, mainly due to an increase in Special Drawing Rights (SDR) holdings, RBI data showed. On Wednesday, RBI had said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an allocation of SDR 12.57 billion (equivalent to around $17.86 billion at the latest exchange rate) to India on August 23, 2021. SDR holdings are part of the foreign exchange reserves of a country.
In the steepest weekly fall ever, India's forex reserves slid by $11.17 billion to $606.47 billion as the currency came under pressure due to geopolitical developments, according to the Reserve Bank data released on Friday. For the previous reporting week ended March 25, the overall reserves had slid by $2.03 billion to $617.65 billion. The steep fall in the reserves was because of a decline in the core currency assets, which fell by $10.73 billion to $539.73 billion.
Gold reserves were down by $1.441 billion in the reporting week to $35.999 billion.
The foreign exchange reserves rose by a robust $1.637 billion to touch $296.63 billion during the week ended December 14 on the back of healthy addition of core currency assets, the Reserve Bank said.
Reserves had touched an all-time high of $355.46 billion in the week to June 19.
Gold reserves were down by $331 million to $37.264 billion.
'Other sectors that manage the savings pools of Indians are giving tough competition to life insurance companies.'
India's foreign exchange reserves slipped marginally by $32.7 million to $293.53 billion, the Reserve Bank said.
India's foreign exchange reserves shot up to an all-time high of $339.99 billion.
The country's foreign exchange reserves fell by $1.151 billion to $277.042 billion for the week ended March 26, against $278.193 billion in the previous week.
The country's foreign exchange reserves fell by $528 million for the week ended February 19 to $278.672 billion compared to $279.2 billion in the previous week. Foreign Currency Assets (FCA), during the week, declined to $254.203 billion from $254.7 billion a week ago, the RBI said in its weekly report.
During the reporting week, gold reserves increased marginally by $87 million to $26.796 billion.
After declining for two consecutive weeks, the country's foreign exchange reserves jumped by $2.294 billion to $316.801 billion on the back of healthy rise in foreign currency assets last week.
Foreign currency assets rose $1.569 billion to $329.58 billion
After having declined for two consecutive weeks, India's foreign exchange reserves grew by $293 million to $282.84 billion compared to earlier week's $282.55-billion.
During the week, gold reserves declined by $443 million to $26.910 billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.379 billion for the week ended November 27, to $286.723 billion compared to $285.344 billion in the previous week.
The total foreign exchange reserves had increased by $1.838 billion to $297.28 billion in the previous reporting week.
India's foreign exchange reserves nearly hit a nine-month low and fell by $5 billion to $302 billion for the week ended December 16, on account of revaluation in foreign currency assets.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $4.405 billion for the week ended August 28, to $276.362 billion as compared to $271.957 billion in the previous week.The foreign currency assets (FCA), during the week, declined to $260.523-billion from $260.938 billion in the week-ago period, RBI said in its weekly report on Friday.
The foreign exchange reserves rose by $2 billion to $279.096 billion for the week ended April 2 as against $277.042 billion in the previous week.
'Many global investors have been overweight on dollar assets, so some diversification or hedging is naturally expected.'
The country's foreign exchange reserves surged by $5.271 billion to touch a record high of $598.165 billion in the week ended May 28, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week ended May 21, 2021, the reserves had increased by $2.865 billion to $592.894 billion. While announcing the second bi-monthly monetary policy review earlier on Friday, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the country's forex reserves may have crossed $600 billion currently.
Gold reserves were up by $712 million to $34.729 billion.
The foreign currency assets increased by $1.808 billion to stand at $224.870 billion as against $223.062 billion in the previous week, the Reserve Bank data stated.
The total reserves had gone up by $982 million in the previous reporting week.
For the week under review, Special Drawing Rights fell by $ 13 million to $4.19 billion, while India's reserve position with the International Monetary Fund was down $3.5 million to $1.14 billion.
Continuing its downward trend for the fifth consecutive week, the foreign exchange reserves plunged $2.754 billion to $311.427 billion in the week to October 3, led by a major fall in non-US currency assets, according to data released by the RBI.
Gold reserves remained unchanged at $20.691 billion.
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