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India Forex Reserve: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday that the country’s foreign exchange reserves declined by US $ 276 million to $ 699.96 billion in the week ending October 3. This figure is slightly below the level of US $ 700 billion. Last week, foreign exchange reserves had decreased by US $ 2.334 billion to US $ 700.236 billion. This is the second consecutive week when the country’s forex reserves have declined. This has happened especially due to reduction in foreign currency assets.
Foreign currency assets also decreased
Foreign currency assets (FCAs), the largest component of foreign exchange reserves, also declined by US$ 4.049 billion to US$ 577.708 billion during the reporting week. It is worth noting that the country’s foreign exchange reserves include not only the US dollar, but also currencies of many other countries like Euro, Pound Sterling and Yen. When the price of these currencies increases or decreases against the dollar, its effect is visible on the FCA. In the week under review, a slight increase of $ 25 million was recorded in Special Drawing Rights (SDR), which reached $ 18.814 billion.
India is still strong
At the same time, the country’s reserves with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) declined marginally by 4 million dollars this week to 4.6669 billion dollars. However, despite this slight decline, India remains one of the countries with the highest foreign exchange reserves. In the week ending October 3, an increase was seen in India’s gold reserves, which increased by $ 3.753 billion to reach the level of $ 98.77 billion.
How full is the treasury of Pakistan?
Along with this, if we look at the status of foreign exchange reserves of Pakistan, according to the data released on Thursday, the forex reserves of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have increased by 20 million dollars by October 3, 2025. With this it has now reached 14.42 billion dollars. SBP said in a statement, during the week ending October 3, 2025, our foreign exchange reserves increased by US $ 20 million to US $ 14,420.1 million. Last week also, Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves had increased by 21 million dollars.
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