Rupee appreciates to three weeks high ahead of US jobs data

03 May 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, extending its appreciating streak to third straight session, strengthened to three week high against dollar on Friday despite lackluster local equities, which reversed all the early gains to end flat. Besides, dollar selling by exporters, banks and increased capital inflows also aided the sentiment of Indian currency. The currency remained largely unscathed from slew of macro-economic data. In not so encouraging news from India's factories, manufacturing production showed no sign of acceleration last month as tepid demand restrained output even as price pressures eased. The data came right after output growth of eight core industries, slowed down to 2.5% in the month of March from a year earlier. On the global front, dollar rose against the yen and recovered from three-week lows against a basket of currencies on Friday on expectations of a robust US jobs number, which would lift some of the gloom caused by a weak growth report earlier this week.

Finally the rupee ended at 60.15, stronger by 20 paise from its previous close of 60.35 on Wednesday. The currency touched a high and low of 60.25 and 60.09 respectively.  The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.22 and for Euro stood at 83.45 on May 02, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.77, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 101.6839. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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