Latest News About Foreign Exchange Reserves

Here’s the latest on foreign exchange reserves based on recent public reporting:

• India’s forex reserves have fluctuated in 2024–2025, with records peaking around $704–705 billion in September 2024 and then varying in subsequent weeks as markets and RBI interventions influenced components like foreign currency assets.[1][4]
• In early 2025, reserves showed renewed increases in some weeks, signaling ongoing external buffer strength, though quarterly movements have been uneven due to currency depreciation pressures and policy actions.[3][1]
• IMF COFER data for late 2024 indicates global FX reserves fell about 3% in 2024Q4, driven largely by the depreciation of reserve currencies against the dollar, which affects the reported value of a country’s total reserves in dollar terms.[4]
• Public financial press in mid-2025 highlighted both continued reserve accumulation in certain weeks and occasional declines in others, reflecting the balance between import cover needs, external financing conditions, and central bank transactions to defend currencies.[2][7][8]

If you’d like, I can pull the most recent figures for a specific country (e.g., India, IMF COFER regional aggregates) and present a short table with the latest weekly or quarterly changes. I can also provide a brief explainer of what drives reserve changes (FX asset composition, valuation effects, and central bank interventions).