{"id":6672,"date":"2018-03-10T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2018-03-10T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T08:23:53","slug":"forex-reserves-jump-by-168-million-to-421-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/10\/forex-reserves-jump-by-168-million-to-421-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Forex reserves jump by $168 million to $421 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 167.8 million to USD 420.758 billion in the week to March 2 on an increase in core currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India said today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3861 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>In the previous reporting week, the reserves had declined by USD 1.13 billion to USD 420.591 billion. The reserves had touched a life-time high of USD 421.914 billion on February 9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It had crossed the USD 400-billion mark for the first time in the week to September 8 last year, but has been fluctuating since then. In the week to March 2, the foreign currency assets, a major component of the overall reserves, rose by USD 177.2 million to USD 395.642 billion, the apex bank said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Expressed in the US dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of the non-US currencies such as the euro, the pound and the yen held in the reserves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The value of gold reserves increased by USD 8.1 million to USD 21.522 billion, the central bank said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The special drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund declined by USD 7.4 million to USD 1.529 billion. The country&#8217;s reserve position with IMF also declined by USD 10.1 million to USD 2.064 billion, the RBI said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/forex-reserves-jump-by-168-million-to-421-billion-118030901047_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 167.8 million to USD 420.758 billion in the week to March 2 on an increase in core currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India said today. In the previous reporting week, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/10\/forex-reserves-jump-by-168-million-to-421-billion\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,493,5],"tags":[955,975,433,396,954,367,434,953],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-business-advisory-services","category-financial-corporate-services","category-economy-business-updates-corporate-affairs","category-india-international-corporate-updates","tag-euro","tag-foreign-currency-assets-fcas","tag-forex","tag-international-monetary-fund-imf","tag-pound","tag-reserve-bank-of-india-rbi","tag-us-dollar","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6673,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/6673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}