The gold reserves remained unchanged at $18.691 billion.
The value of the gold reserves increased $78.2 million to $22.764 billion
India's foreign exchange reserves crossed the $100 billion mark during the week ending December 19 and stood at $100.049 billion.
Foreign exchange reserves moved up $378 million to $73.583 billion for the week ended January 31, 2002
Foreign exchange reserves of eight Asian countries have depleted by a record $36 billion in August alone, as foreign investors pulled out money and central banks were seen using the reserves to prop up falling local currencies.
From the Sensex pack, Bharti Airtel, Titan, Tata Consultancy Services, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, Nestle, Reliance Industries, Mahindra & Mahindra, HDFC Bank and Tata Motors were the biggest gainers. However, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance and UltraTech Cement were the laggards.
The country's reserve position with the International Monetary Fund also increased by $ 3.6 million to $ 3.344 billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined by $215 million at $81.905 billion during the week ended June 27, 2003. \n\n\n\n
Indian foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.8 billion in the week ended June 20, 2008, to $312.48 billion. The increase in reserves was basically due to a hike in foreign currency assets, which grew by $1.78 billion to $302.74 billion, according to the Reserve Bank of India's weekly statistical supplement released.
Gold reserves remained unchanged at $20.691 billion.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined for the first time in the current fiscal by $56 million to reach $118.57 billion for the week ended May 21.
Foreign exchange reserves dipped marginally by $237.5 million to $355.221 billion in the week to June 26.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell for the third week in a row by $544 million for the week ended July eight, 2005.
The Reserve Bank of India is not in favour of limiting the build-up of foreign exchange reserves, now at over $93 billion, as the country would require them for higher economic growth, Usha Thorat, executive director at the central bank, said.
In the previous week, reserves had declined by $1.03 billion to $353.33 billion.
Foreign currency assets, a major component of the overall reserves, rose by $1.404 billion to $338.897 billion in the reporting week
China's foreign exchange reserves look set to create a new record at $1 trillion at the end of this month or early November, posing new problems how to best manage it, economists said.
Foreign exchange reserves increased $2.146 billion to $139.352 billion for the week ended January 6, according to the weekly supplement released by the Reserve Bank of India.
Foreign currency assets, a major part of the overall reserves, surged $493.2 million to $282.029 billion for the period under review, Reserve Bank of India said on Friday.
In the previous week, the reserves had fallen by $3.028 billion to $360.797 billion.
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 reserves had dropped by $1.434 billion to $348.934 billion.
From the Sensex firms, Tata Steel, Eternal, Tech Mahindra, Maruti, Mahindra & Mahindra, Infosys, IndusInd Bank, HCL Tech, Tata Consultancy Services and Bharti Airtel were the major gainers. Telecom operator Bharti Airtel climbed nearly 1 per cent after it posted about a five-fold jump in consolidated net profit to Rs 11,022 crore in the March 2025 quarter, mainly due to the tariff hike impact and one-time gain on tax benefits. However, Asian Paints, Tata Motors, Kotak Mahindra Bank, NTPC and Power Grid were among the laggards.
Gold reserves declined by $346.2 million.
Foreign exchange reserves rose $287 million to $117.879 billion in the week ended April 23, 2004 from $117.592 billion in the previous week, according to the weekly supplement released by the Reserve Bank of India on Saturday.\n\n\n\n
India's forex kitty rose by $12.80 billion to $572.80 billion in the week ended March 17, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the reserves had dropped by $2.39 billion to a three-month low of $560.00 billion. It can be noted that in October 2021, the country's forex kitty had reached an all-time high of $645 billion.
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $21.1 million to $280.19 billion, the Reserve Bank said.
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 touched $301.23 billion by the end of February 2008. Over $102 billion have been added to the reserves since the beginning of the financial year (April 2007) due to huge capital flows, and remittances as well as weakening of dollar. The reserves stood at $294.61 billion at the end of February 22, 2008. The forex kitty swelled by $6.62 billion, amongst the largest accretion to reserves in a span of a week.
Foreign currency assets increase by $3.902 billion
India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $1.2 billion during the week-ended September 23, 2005.
India's foreign exchange reserves dipped by $1.327 billion to $317.313 billion in the week ended September 5 on a slide in the currency assets and gold stockpile, the Reserve Bank said.
The country's foreign exchange reserves dipped by $0.985 billion to $279.20 billion, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.
The marginal decline in reserves was on account of fall in foreign currency assets
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.
The country's foreign exchange reserves continued to surge ahead and for the third week in a row crossed the $1.5 billion mark.
Maruti, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finserv, Eternal, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Steel, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Titan, HDFC Bank, and NTPC were among the other major gainers. Bharti Airtel and Sun Pharma were the laggards.
The Reserve Bank has told the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the objective of frequent interventions in the forex market is to curb excessive volatility, dismissing the Fund's rationale for reclassifying India's exchange rate regime. The IMF, following the Article IV consultation with the Indian authorities, reclassified the status of the exchange rate regime to "stabilised arrangement" from "floating" for period between December 2022 to October 2023. India's Executive Director at IMF K V Subramanian and Senior Advisors Sanjay Kumar Hansda and Anand Singh questioned the selection period adopted by the Fund for analysis and also reclassification of the country's exchange rate regime.
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