India’s foreign exchange reserves at lifetime high
The big question is how much more foreign exchange will the Reserve Bank of India buy, and why?
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$27.3-bn of maturing corporate debt in FY21 not a concern: BofA Securities
The amount is just 0.8% and 5.8% of India’s GDP and foreign exchange reserves, respectively. And the maturity profile is reasonably spread out in FY21.
India’s forex kitty could swell to $550 billion
Since April 2001 foreign exchange reserves grew 11.15 times to $476.09 billion in mid-February; the RBI may add $21 billion more by March 2021, according to a BofA Securities report.
The tale of India’s forex reserves
In the week ended October 4, India’s forex kitty swelled to an all-time high of $437.8 billion. In the 471 weeks from October 2010, it has crossed the $400-billion mark 81 times.
