{"id":439513,"date":"2026-01-30T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:41:13","slug":"indias-forex-reserves-up-by-8-billion-to-709-41-billion-as-of-january-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439513\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s forex reserves up by $8 billion to $709.41 billion as of January 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s foreign exchange reserves jumped to $709.41 billion in the week ending January 23, 2026, <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/markets\/rbi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RBI<\/a> data showed. This marks a jump of $8 billion over the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>Forex reserves have risen sharply over the past two weeks \u200cas the \u200ccentral bank conducted forex swaps to infuse rupee liquidity into the \u200cdomestic markets and the value of its gold holdings rose.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank&#8217;s gold holdings are now valued at $123 billion, jumping $5.6 billion over the week.<br \/>The central bank has been \u200bactively intervening by selling dollars to \u200bprotect the rupee, which is trading at record \u200clows. The \u200dimpact of the dollar sales, however, has \u200dbeen offset by the rising value of \u200cassets such as gold and due to longer-term forex swaps.<\/p>\n<p>The RBI closely monitors developments in the foreign exchange market and intervenes when necessary to maintain orderly conditions. Such actions are aimed at limiting excessive volatility in the rupee and are not linked to defending any specific exchange rate level or band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s foreign exchange reserves jumped to $709.41 billion in the week ending January 23, 2026, RBI data showed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,207369,48930,207368,31306,207370],"class_list":{"0":"post-439513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-forex-market-intervention","11":"tag-india-foreign-exchange-reserves","12":"tag-india-forex-reserves-january-2026","13":"tag-rbi","14":"tag-reserve-bank-of-india-data"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}