Monday, 9 March 2015

India’s FOREX Reserves Touch New High

As overseas investors continue pouring in dollars to currency markets of this country, the Reserve Bank of India is amassing currency reserves.

India’s FOREX stocks picked up to another life-time peak at $338.079 billion (US) which is an increase of $3.886 billion during the last week of February because of higher FX assets. Before this period, reserves have increased by $1.023 billion to $334.193 billion, according to figures presented by the Reserve Bank of India.

FOREX assets, which serve as primary component of total reserves, went up by $3.902 billion to $12.200 billion.

These assets are shown in dollar terms and take in the outcome of appreciation as well of depreciation for non-US currencies. These include the common currency, UK pound sterling and Japanese yen.

India’s gold reserves have not moved at $20.183 billion for this week.

On the other hand, special drawing rights plunged by $11.4 million to $4.065 billion while the country’s reserve stand with the International Monetary Fund also decreased by $4.6 million to $1.630 billion for the given period.

The rate of special drawing rights was reduced by $11.4 million during the week at $4.06 billion.

Meanwhile, gold reserves during the week ending February remained stagnant at $20.18 billion. Reserves went up by $805.3 million or $20.18 billion during the first week of last month

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