The RBI is likely to increase its gold investments, as well buying dollars and exploring investing in AAA-rated corporate bonds for the first time
The country's foreign exchange reserves swelled by $5.412 billion to touch an all-time high of $560.532 billion in the week ended October 23, RBI data showed on Friday
In the previous week ended October 9, 2020, the reserves had increased by USD 5.867 billion to reach USD 551.505 billion
The country's foreign exchange reserves surged by $5.867 billion to touch a record high of $551.5 billion in the week to October 9, according to the RBI data
The NGTA, for which the RBI has invited bids from eligible vendors, would be supporting various transactions in asset classes like Fixed Income (FI), Forex (FX), Money Market (MM) and Gold
During the reporting week, the decline in the forex kitty was mainly due to a fall in foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major component of the overall reserves
After touching a life-time high in the previous week, the country's foreign exchange reserves declined by $353 million to $541.660 billion in the week ended September 11, according to RBI data
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $582 million to reach a lifetime high of $542 billion in the week ended September 4, RBI data showed on Friday
In the reporting week, the forex kitty rose mainly on the back of a jump in foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major component of the overall reserves
Bond and currency markets would increase policy difficulties
The country's reserve position with the IMF also increased by $6 million to $4.634 billion during the reporting week
After rising for the past few weeks, the country's foreign exchange reserves declined by $2.939 billion to $535.252 billion for the week ended August 14, RBI data showed
In the previous week ended July 31, the reserves had increased by $11.938 billion to reach $534.568 billion
The currency swap arrangement will remain available till November 2022, the Indian mission said in a press release
Gold reserves were up by $712 million to $34.729 billion, as per the central bank data
India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $2.078 billion during the week ended June 19
The expansion of base money through household gold will have a negative wealth effect on households, besides attracting a hidden tax or seigniorage
According to BofA, the 'conservative' level of forex reserves for the RBI works out to be $550 billion.
In the previous week, the foreign exchange reserves had increased by $ 1.701 billion to $ 473 billion
In the sixth bi-monthly monetary policy of 2019-20 announced on Thursday, RBI had said foreign exchange reserves touched a lifetime high of USD 471.4 billion on February 4, 2020.