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Forex kitty continues to swell, scales past $451-billion-mark

Mumbai: Foreign exchange reserves gained $2.484 billion to touch a new high of $451.08 billion in the week to November 29, according to the weekly data released by the Reserve Bank on Friday. In the previous week, the reserves had increased by $347 million to $448.6 billion.

Announcing the fifth bi-monthly monetary policy on Thursday, governor Shaktikanta Das had said the reserves touched $451.7 billion as of December 3, an increase of $38.8 billion since April.

In the reporting week, the rise in reserves was mainly on account of an increase in foreign currency assets, a major component of the overall reserves, which rose by $2.642 million to $419.367 billion, according to the data. Expressed in dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and the yen held in forex reserves.

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