Total Forex reserves stood at USD 609 billion as of 14th July 2023. RBI was net buyer of USD during May 23. Net buying of US dollar was USD 7.37 billion during May 23 as compared to net selling of USD 7.7 billion in April 23.
System liquidity declined further in March a compared to last month driven by factors such as advance tax out flow, year-end fund demand from banks and dollar selling by RBI.
System liquidity rose by around Rs 967 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 678 billion as of 19th Jan 2023. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at Rs 1565 billion as of 19th Jan 2023.
System liquidity declined by around Rs 1263 billion month on month and was at a deficit of Rs 288 billion as of 20th Dec 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at Rs 833 billion as of 20th Dec 2022.
System liquidity rose by around Rs 850 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 975 billion as of 17th Nov 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at Rs 2014 billion as of 17th Nov 2022.
System liquidity declined by around Rs 357 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 125 billion as of 17th Oct 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at 1248 billion as of 17th Oct 2022.
System liquidity declined by around Rs 530 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 482 billion as of 15th Sep 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at 1684 billion as of 15th Sep 2022.
System liquidity declined by around Rs 330 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 1012 billion as of 17th Aug 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at 2233 billion as of 17th Aug 2022.
System liquidity declined by around Rs 403 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 2463 billion as of 14th July 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at 3.79 billion as of 14th July 2022.
System liquidity declined by around Rs 2447 billion month on month and was at a surplus of Rs 2886 billion as of 16th June 2022. Liquidity absorption through Reverse Repo and SDF stood at 4.22 billion as of 16th June 2022.
In order to neutralize excess systemic liquidity, RBI has taken various steps such as fine-tuning variable reverse repo auction, selling of government bonds and stopping of G-SAP operation recently
Total Forex reserves stood at USD 619 billion as of 13th Aug 2021. RBI bought net amount of USD 18.63 billion in June 2021 and has cumulatively bought USD 28.68 billion during Apr-June 2021.
RBI is buying USD in the forward market to reduce the impact of its fx intervention on system liquidity. 1% CRR hike impact on liquidity will be nullified through OMO bond purchases of Rs 1 trillion in this quarter.
Total Forex reserves stood at USD 583.87 billion as of 19th February 2021. In FY21, Forex reserves increased by USD 106.06 billion. RBI bought USD 10.01 billion in December and has cumulatively bought USD 72.38 billion in the April-December period.
Total Forex reserves stood at Rs 545.63 billion as of 2nd October 2020. In FY21 Forex reserves increased by USD 69 billion. RBI has pumped in over Rs 3 trillion of liquidity through fx purchases.
RBI has been buying USD in May & June and has taken up fx reserves to record USD 513 billion and this is also helping keep system liquidity high. RBI has added around Rs 2.2 trillion through fx purchases.