{"id":114161,"date":"2021-05-29T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=114161"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T11:20:01","slug":"forex-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/forex-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Forex reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : India&#8217;s forex reserves(for the week ended May 21) hit lifetime high, rise $ 2.8 bn to &#8212;<\/strong><br>a. $ 592.894 bn<br>b. $ 492.894 bn<br>c. $ 692.894 bn<br>d. $ 392.894 bn<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India\u2019s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 2.865 billion to a record high of USD 592.894 billion for the week ended May 21, boosted by gold and currency assets, RBI data showed on May 28, 2021.<\/li><li>The previous all-time high for the forex kitty was USD 590.185 billion for the week ended January 29, 2021.<\/li><li>For the previous week ended May 14, the reserves had increased by USD 563 million to reach USD 590.028 billion.<\/li><li>Foreign currency assets (FCA), a major component of the overall reserves, swelled by USD 1.649 billion to USD 548.519 billion for the reporting week, the RBI said.<\/li><li>Expressed in dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves.<\/li><li>After remaining unchanged in the previous week, gold reserves rose by USD 1.187 billion to USD 36.841 billion.<\/li><li>The special drawing rights (SDRs) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) increased by USD 7 million to USD 1.513 billion.<\/li><li>India\u2019s reserve position with the IMF too increased by USD 22 million to USD 5.021 billion in the reporting week, as per the data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/markets\/forex\/indias-forex-reserves-touch-all-time-high-at-592-billion\/articleshow\/83037590.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/markets\/forex\/indias-forex-reserves-touch-all-time-high-at-592-billion\/articleshow\/83037590.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : India&#8217;s forex reserves(for the week ended May 21) hit lifetime high, rise $ 2.8 bn to &#8212;a. $ 592.894 bnb. $ 492.894 bnc. $ 692.894 bnd. $ 392.894 bnAns. a.Related facts India\u2019s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 2.865 billion to a record high of USD 592.894 billion for the week ended May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":114162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-114161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114163,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114161\/revisions\/114163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}