{"id":7218,"date":"2026-04-10T21:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/04\/10\/indias-forex-kitty-rises-9-bn-to-697-12-bn-gold-drives-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:03:18","slug":"indias-forex-kitty-rises-9-bn-to-697-12-bn-gold-drives-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=7218","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s forex kitty rises $9 bn to $697.12 bn; gold drives surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130172002,imgsize-844896,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"India\u2019s forex kitty rises $9 bn to $697.12 bn; gold drives surge\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>India\u2019s foreign exchange reserves rose by $9.063 billion to $697.121 billion for the week ended April 3, 2026, reversing the decline seen in the previous week, PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>The reserves had dropped by $10.288 billion to $688.058 billion in the week ended March 27.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The forex kitty had earlier touched an all-time high of $728.494 billion in the week ended February 27, before the onset of the West Asia crisis, which triggered sustained depletion amid market volatility.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The rupee has been under pressure since the start of the conflict, prompting the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/reserve-bank-of-india\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Reserve Bank of India<\/a> to intervene in the forex market through dollar sales and take policy measures to curb volatility.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>According to RBI data, foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major component of the reserves, increased by $1.784 billion to $552.856 billion during the reporting week.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The FCAs reflect the impact of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies such as the euro, pound and yen held in the reserves.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Gold reserves recorded a sharp increase of $7.221 billion to $120.742 billion, contributing significantly to the overall rise in reserves.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were up by $58 million to $18.707 billion.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>India\u2019s reserve position with the IMF remained unchanged at $4.816 billion during the week, the central bank data showed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/indias-forex-kitty-rises-9-bn-to-697-12-bn-gold-drives-surge\/articleshow\/130172020.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s foreign exchange reserves rose by $9.063 billion to $697.121 billion for the week ended April 3, 2026, reversing the decline seen in the previous week, PTI reported.The reserves had dropped by $10.288 billion to $688.058 billion in the week ended March 27.The forex kitty had earlier touched an all-time high of $728.494 billion in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}