Archive · 25 Oct 2025
India's Forex Reserves Increase on Gold Purchases
India's foreign money reserves went up.
This is mainly because the country's central bank, the RBI, bought more gold.
The RBI has been buying a lot of gold to store money instead of keeping it in other countries' bonds.
Buying gold helps India protect its money in case of problems with other countries.
The total amount of money reserves is over $700 billion.
However, some of the money held in foreign currencies decreased a bit.
India's forex reserves increased by $4.49 billion to $702.28 billion.
The rise was primarily driven by an increase in gold reserves.
The RBI purchased $6.18 billion in gold during the week ending October 17.
Foreign currency assets decreased by $1.69 billion.
Analysts say the RBI is diversifying reserves by lowering investment in US bonds.
- Who
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Analysts
- What
- India's forex reserves rose due to increased gold purchases by the RBI.
- When
- Week ending October 17, 2025
- Where
- India
- Why
- RBI is building gold reserves and diversifying from the US dollar.
- Forex Reserves (October 17)
- $702.28 billion
- Weekly Increase
- $4.49 billion
- Gold Reserves (Value)
- $108.54 billion
- Gold Purchases (Week of Oct 17)
- $6.18 billion
- Foreign Currency Assets (FCA)
- $570.41 billion
- FCA Decrease
- $1.69 billion
Sources
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