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Forex reserves rise by $650 m

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Mumbai, Sept. 19 Forex reserves rose by a modest $650 million to touch $289.461 billion, for the week ended September 12, due to changes in the value of foreign currencies.

In the earlier week, forex reserves had declined by a whopping $6.498 billion to touch $288.811 billion.

According to the Reserve Bank of India’s Weekly Statistical Supplement, for the week under review, foreign currency assets increased by $676 million to touch $280.302 billion. Foreign currency assets expressed in US dollar terms include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies such as euro, sterling and yen held in reserves.

The euro was weak against the dollar in the period under consideration.

Gold reserves and SDRs were unchanged at $8.692 billion and $4 million respectively.

The reserve position in the IMF fell by $26 million to touch $463 million in the week under review.

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