Today, the Reserve Bank released the May 2025 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes two speeches, four articles and current statistics. The four articles are: I. State of the Economy; II. Economic Activity and Banknotes: New Approaches; III. Digital Footprints: Decoding India’s Inbound Tourism through Internet Searches; and IV. Impact of Weather Anomalies on Vegetable Prices in India.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended May 16, 2025.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2024 2025 Variation May 10 May 2 May 9 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government - 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 11584 38480 51342 12862 39758 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 03-May-2024 18-Apr-2025* 02-May-2025* 03-May-2024 18-Apr-2025* 02-May-2025* LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 291055.36 346519.46 350035.11 295223.02 352576.56 356073.79** b) Borrowings from banks 167685.78 105133.47 110267.74 167685.78 105135.36 110368.75 c) Other demand & time liabilities 76526.46 23924.94 23236.44 76795.51 24211.61 23597.28 LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A)

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) and Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDB) both, through Automatic Route and Approval Route, for the month of March 2025.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2024 2025 Variation May 3 Apr. 25 May 2 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government - 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 19755 22324 38480 16156 18726 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank of India has been conducting Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) since September 2007 and consolidated results have been regularly disseminated on the Bank’s website in the form of web-articles. To promote transparency and research initiatives, Reserve Bank of India will now start disseminating the individual respondent-level forecasts from recent rounds of SPF (from round 61 onwards) after anonymising the forecasters’ personally identifiable information.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2024 2025 Variation Apr. 26 Apr. 18 Apr. 25 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government - 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 13284 36792 22324 -14467 9040 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of April 2025 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates:

The value of exports and imports of services during March 2025 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) January – 2025 34,726 (12.0) 16,706 (12.6) February – 2025 31,625 (11.6) 14,506 (-4.8) March – 2025 35,600 (18.6) 17,475 (5.3) Notes: (i) Data for January-March are provisional; and (ii) Figures in parentheses are growth rates over the corresponding month of the previous year which have been revised on the basis of balance of payments statistics.