Rupee comes off week’s high level; ends strong ahead of US Fed's policy meet outcome

30 Apr 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, after a good start, ended substantially strong against dollar on Wednesday on massive dollar selling by exporters and corporate. However, the pair came off week’s high level, scaled early in the session tracking falls in local stocks and short-covering of dollar by banks amid caution before the US Fed's policy meet outcome later in the day, whereby US central bank may probably cut monthly bond purchases by $10 billion to $45 billion. Nevertheless, some month-end dollar demand from banks and oil importers also weighed on the sentiment. Besides, further uptrend of local unit was limited after Reserve Bank of India signaled that it would not let the rupee appreciate beyond 60 to the dollar as it shifts to consumer prices as a basis for calculating the real effective exchange rate or REER. On the global front, euro trod water in early European trade on Wednesday with all eyes on euro zone inflation numbers due later, while offshore rates for China's yuan fell again, taking it to an 18-month low against the dollar

Finally the rupee ended at 60.35, stronger by 8 paise from its previous close of 60.43 on Tuesday. The currency touched a high and low of 60.40 and 60.26 respectively.  The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.33 and for Euro stood at 83.30 on April 30, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.93, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 101.4515. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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