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.
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.
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 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.
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.
During the reporting week, gold reserves increased marginally by $87 million to $26.796 billion.
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.
During the week, gold reserves declined by $443 million to $26.910 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.
Gold reserves were up by $712 million to $34.729 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.
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 remained unchanged at $20.691 billion.
Last week, the forex reserves had surged by $2.374 billion to $363.171 billion.
In the previous week, the reserves had fallen by $3.028 billion to $360.797 billion.
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The reserves have been surging by over $3 billion for the last two consecutive weeks. The forex reserves stood at $288.316 billion, up by $3.418 billion a week before.
The gold reserves remained unchanged at $18.151 billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves have dropped by a massive $1.649 billion to $314.661 billion in the week to December 5, led by a fall in foreign currency assets.
India's foreign exchange reserves continued to surge ahead and neared the $74-billion mark following fresh inflows of $178 million to touch $73,918 million during the week ended March 14.
India's foreign exchange reserves surged by a healthy $2.788 billion to $343.2 billion in the week to April 17.
India's forex reserves decreased by $950 million to stand at $144 billion during the week ended December 23 against $145 billion during the preceding week.
India's forex reserves increased by $1.057 billion to stand at $145 billion during the week ended December 16 against $143.943 billion during the preceding week
India's forex reserves increased by a whopping 5.031 billion to stand at $185.078 billion during the week ended February 9, as against $180.047 billion during the week ended February 2.
Gold reserves in the reporting week increased by $707 million to $33.52 billion.
The foreign exchange kitty had crossed the half-a-trillion mark for the first time in the week ended June 5, 2020, after it had swelled by $8.223 billion to stand at $501.703 billion.
The marginal decline in reserves was on account of fall in foreign currency assets
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India's forex reserves came down by $30 million to stand at $165.275 billion during the week ended October 13 as against $165.305 billion during the week ended October 6.
India's forex reserves increased by $940 million to stand at $166.482 billion during the week ended September 22 from $165.542 billion during the week ended September 15.
India's forex reserves increased by $157 million to stand at $163.033 billion during the week ended on June 16, as against $162.876 billion during the week ended June 9.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined by $2.599 billion to $293.11 billion in the week ended January 3 on account of a fall in foreign currency assets, RBI said.
India's forex reserves increased by $2.96 billion to stand at $151.622 billion during the week ending March 31, 2006 against $148.662 billion during the week ending March 24.
India's forex reserves decreased by 466 million to stand at 4139.44 billion during the week ended January 20, 2005 against $139.51 billion during the preceding week.
