Kuwait Dinar Basket

Scroll to zoom, drag to slide through time, on any panel · hold the middle mouse button (or Shift) and drag to select a window · every panel follows · double-click to reset · click any legend entry to hide or restore it · shaded bands mark NBER-dated US recession monthsTap a chart for values, drag one sideways to slide through time · the range buttons and month pickers set the window, every panel follows · tap any legend entry to hide or restore it · shaded bands mark NBER-dated US recession months

Sources & methods Pairs are quoted market-convention X/KWD - the dinar price of one unit of X - so a rising line means that currency dearer and the dinar weaker; the basket chart plots the inverse pair KWD/CHF, where rising means a stronger dinar. The MER synthetic basket is Macro Edge Research's reconstruction of the CBK's undisclosed peg basket using the rounded weights USD 85% / EUR 10% / JPY 3% / GBP 2%; the CHF-numeraire weekly series behind the basket charts uses market crosses, which differ from CBK's fixing time by a small timing basis. CBK publishes fixings Sunday through Thursday (Kuwait weekend Friday-Saturday) and does not disclose the actual weights. Series on rebased charts index to 100 at their first value inside the selected range, so only drift inside the window shows; the basket series aggregate to Friday-labeled weeks, so their right edge can trail the fixing charts by a few days. Reserves, M2 and the adequacy ratios publish at roughly a one-month lag. Reserves and adequacy plot year-end annual observations through 2019 (World Bank and FRED long-arc) and monthly CBK NSDP data from 2020, with R/M2 chain-linked across the 2020 M2 sectoral reclassification; ARA values before 2013 are anchored to the IMF's Article IV historical chart, year-end values from 2013 are IMF labeled actuals with MER-computed monthly readings between anchors, and readings after end-2025 are MER's damped-Holt nowcast. CBK books monetary gold at the fixed 1978 decree price (KWD 12.500 per ounce); the reserves chart's optional market-value line is a latest-stock historical estimate. It infers gold ounces from the latest monthly snapshot book value and the decree price, then applies that stock to each month's last daily gold price (spot through mid-July 2026, then the active gold futures contract, restated at contract rolls) and CBK USD fixing; it does not measure holdings in each historical month. Nowcast months are written as data arrives and are not routinely restated; the definitive record of what each issue published is the issue itself, and the tile carries the latest issue's value. Methodology and the monthly record: the research catalog carries every Monitor issue and the two working papers (the Frankel-Wei basket paper and the ARA nowcast paper). Forecasts and track record → · Disclaimer