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India's forex reserves touch five-month high at $572 bn

ANI | | Posted by Singh Rahul Sunilkumar
Jan 22, 2023 01:11 PM IST

India's foreign exchange reserves jumped to USD 10.417 billion to USD 572.0 billion. During the week that ended on January 6, the country's forex reserves were at USD 561.583 billion in the week ending on January 13.

India's foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 10.417 billion to USD 572.0 billion in the week ending on January 13, Reserve Bank of India's Bulletin Weekly Statistical Supplement data showed. With this sharp jump, the reserves hit over a five-month high.

India's foreign currency assets, the biggest component of the forex reserves, rose by USD 9.078 billion.
India's foreign currency assets, the biggest component of the forex reserves, rose by USD 9.078 billion.

During the week that ended on January 6, the country's forex reserves were at USD 561.583 billion, earlier data showed.

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According to RBI's latest data, India's foreign currency assets, the biggest component of the forex reserves, rose by USD 9.078 billion to USD 505.519 billion.

Gold reserves rose by USD 1.106 to USD 42.890 billion.

Notably, at the start of last year - 2022, the overall forex reserves were at about USD 633 billion.

Much of the decline can be attributed to RBI's intervention and a rise in the cost of imported goods. In October 2021, the country's foreign exchange reserves reportedly touched an all-time high of about USD 645 billion.

The forex reserves had been intermittently falling for months now, barring the latest jump, largely because of the RBI's intervention in the market to defend the depreciating rupee against a surging US dollar.

Typically, the RBI, from time to time, intervenes in the market through liquidity management, including through the selling of dollars, with a view to preventing a steep depreciation in the rupee.

The RBI closely monitors the foreign exchange markets and intervenes only to maintain orderly market conditions by containing excessive volatility in the exchange rate, without reference to any pre-determined target level or band, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said in response to a question in recent Parliament session on whether the central bank has been using reserves to stem the fall in the Indian currency.

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