Foreign exchange reserves climbed further by $ 402 million to a new record high of $109.998 billion during the week ended March 19 from $109.596 billion a week ago.
Country's foreign exchange reserves dropped by $2.063 billion to $ 335.729 billion in the week to March 13.
India's forex reserves fell for the fourth week in a row by $520 million to $139 billion for the week ended May 20, 2005.
'The Budget must be pro-growth, focusing on infrastructure creation while also managing the fiscal deficit.'
India's foreign exchange reserves swelled by over $2.6 billion to touch $135.65 billion for the week ended February 25.
India's foreign exchange reserves rose by a healthy $1.51 billion to touch $279.240 billion in the week to October 11 on account of growth in a key component of the assets, the Reserve Bank said.
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.73 billion for the week ended October 31 to $315.91 billion, show Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data released on Friday, marking one of the sharpest rises ever.
India's foreign exchange reserves showed a dip for the first time in several weeks after the government repaid $3.04 billion of loans in advance to multilateral agencies in the last week of February.
Robust trade flows and remittances by expatriates helped India's foreign exchange reserves rise for the 15th straight week to a record high, analysts said after the central bank released the latest data on Saturday.
The reserves had dropped by $1.434 billion to $348.934 billion.
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $954.6 million to $294.36 billion on account of gains in the value of gold reserves, the Reserve Bank said.
Foreign currency assets, a key component rose $1.6 bn to $304.9 bn.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined for the second consecutive week to $295.50 billion, down $12.6 million, in the week ended December 20, the Reserve Bank said.
The share of non-resident Indians (NRIs) and overseas investors in Indian mutual funds has been declining over time, despite adding half-a-trillion rupees to holdings over the last five years. Mutual fund holdings for the segment went up from Rs 0.95 trillion as of December 2018 to Rs 1.54 trillion as of December 2022, shows Business Standard analysis of data from the industry body Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi). Their share in overall mutual fund assets has fallen from 4.2 per cent to 3.9 per cent during the same period.
India's foreign exchange reserves shot up for a third week in a row, adding a healthy $1.9 billion to touch $281.12 billion in the week to October 18 on account of growth in a key component, the Reserve Bank said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized its biggest-ever cryptocurrency worth Rs 1,646 crore in a money laundering investigation into a fraud investment scheme called BitConnect. The scheme, which ran between 2016 and 2018, promised investors high returns through a proprietary trading bot but was found to be a sham. The ED tracked transactions through the dark web and seized the cryptocurrency from numerous wallets. This is the agency's largest-ever seizure of virtual digital assets and the investigation is ongoing.
After registering a decline for the last two weeks, India's forex reserves increased by $1.04 billion for the week ended June 17, 2005.
After a dream run of almost one month, India's forex reserves dipped by $ 224 million to stand at $194.410 billion during the week ended March 9 as against $194.634 billion during the week ended March 2.
Gold reserves declined by $346.2 million.
The exodus of FPIs from the Indian equity markets continued unabated, as they withdrew over Rs 7,300 crore (about $840 million) in the first week of this month due to global trade tensions, with the US imposing tariffs on countries such as Canada, Mexico, and China. This came following an outflow of Rs 78,027 crore in the entire January. Before that, they invested Rs 15,446 crore in December, data with the depositories showed.
Fitch Ratings has removed energy infrastructure company Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (AESL) from its 'Ratings Watch Negative' list, the first upgrade by an international ratings agency since the US indictment. Fitch affirmed AESL long-term foreign and local-currency issuer default ratings (IDRs) at 'BBB-'.
The amount of money Indians invested in foreign securities, property, and deposits in 2022 was likely the highest on record. At $2.1 billion, it was the largest spend for any 12-month period according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) data going back over a decade. The amount spent for each individual segment was also the highest.
Those who consider the rupee as a proxy for virility have started thumping their chests and dreaming of dethroning the dollar from its coveted position, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'India's emergence as a top crypto market comes despite a regulatory and tax environment that can be challenging for the industry to navigate.'
Rise in reserves was predominantly on account of increase in FCAs
After rising for four consecutive weeks, India's foreign exchange reserves declined by $1.657 billion to $281.294 billion in the week to November 1 on account of drop in a key component, Reserve Bank said.
The RBI under former governor Shaktikanta Das resisted pressures to cut interest rates through 2024 as it kept its 'Arjuna's eye' trained on inflation, but the central bank under a new detail-oriented head will soon have to take a call if it can continue sacrificing growth. Das, a career bureaucrat who in 2016 oversaw Prime Minister Narendra Modi's highly disruptive demonetisation move, left a lasting legacy as he demitted office towards the end of 2024 after expertly navigating monetary policy for six years, the highlight of which was steering India's recovery through the pandemic.
The rupee ended at 59.18 compared with previous close of 59.33 to the dollar.
The country's foreign exchange reserves surged by $58.38 billion in April-September 2021 to $635.36 billion, says an RBI report released on Wednesday. The forex reserves were at $576.98 billion at end-March 2021. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) publishes half-yearly reports on management of foreign exchange reserves.
The country's gold reserves remained unchanged at $19.377 billion.
Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) reported a 25 per cent rise in net profit attributable to the owners of the company for the January-March quarter of 2024-25, owing to higher revenues and an exceptional gain. For the quarter under review, L&T posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 5,497.3 crore, while revenue rose 10.9 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 74,392.28 crore.
'A repo cut will be very good for the market as it will mean that everything is being done to spur growth in these uncertain times.'
New investors should gradually build a 5 to 10 per cent allocation to gold.
India's forex reserves surged by a whopping $5.04 billion to $291.3 billion in the week ended November 29 on account of a robust jump in foreign currency assets (FCAs), the Reserve Bank said.
The rise in reserves was $2.12 billion.
The Reserve Bank on Thursday said its surplus (profit) for the FY'14 fiscal declined 14.75 per cent to Rs 52,679 crore (Rs 526.79 billion) as its interest income from investments in foreign sovereign bonds declined during the year even as its investments increased.
The size of the Reserve Bank's balance sheet, which is reflective of activities carried out by it in pursuance of currency issue function as well as monetary policy and reserve management, has increased by 6.99 per cent during the nine-month period ended March 31, 2021. While income for the year decreased by 10.96 per cent, the expenditure decreased by 63.10 per cent, as per the RBI's Annual Report for 2020-21. The year ended with an overall surplus of Rs 99,122 crore as against Rs 57,127.53 crore in the previous year, representing an increase of 73.51 per cent, it added.
A day after BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations agreed on a $100-billion foreign currency reserve pool to tackle the volatile foreign exchange markets, India on Friday said the pool would act as a buffer arrangement, adding it might not withdraw anything from this reserve.
The recent global fund flow data suggests that one big cycle of foreign fund allocation into India may have come to an end and the trend could remain soft for a longer time, according to a report by Elara Capital. The note said last week's outflow of $302 million from India's dedicated funds is the largest since June 2022.
Stock market investors became richer by a whopping Rs 77.66 lakh crore in 2024, helped by an overall optimistic trend in equities, where the BSE Sensex surged over 8 per cent. Analysts said the year witnessed a tug of war between the bulls and bears marked by volatility but, despite the uncertainties around the world, the Indian markets sustained the pressure and delivered impressive returns.
