MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s international alternate reserves rose for a second week to hit an over nine-month excessive of $586.41 billion for the week ended April 14, the Reserve Financial institution of India’s (RBI) statistical complement confirmed on Friday.

That is a rise of $1.65 billion from the earlier week. Reserves had gone up by $6.3 billion within the week ending April 7.

The central financial institution intervenes within the spot and forwards markets to forestall runaway strikes within the rupee. Adjustments in foreign exchange reserves additionally stem from valuation positive aspects or losses.

For the reported week, the rupee had ended marginally larger towards the U.S. greenback and traded in a spread of 81.77 to 82.15.

The rupee closed at 82.09 on Friday within the week ending April 21, halting a four-week rising streak.