Indian rupee, posted its biggest fall in half a year on Friday, as the rally in the dollar in global markets underpinned banks to buy the greenback for their corporate clients. This depreciation came despite Reserve Bank of India’s intervention, which was speculated to sell some dollars via state-run banks to support Indian currency. Nevertheless, weakness of local equities also weighed on the local unit, which scaled its biggest fall since January 24, during a period when emerging markets were gripped by risk aversion over China's economy. However, little impact was seen from a private survey on Friday showing factory activity expanded at its quickest pace in 17 months in July and data late on Thursday showing annual infrastructure sector growth hit a nine-month high in June. On the global front, dollar climbed towards multi-month highs against several major currencies on Friday and headed for a third week of gains, signalling that a year of low volatility and poor trading returns may be ending.
Finally the rupee ended at 61.18, weaker by 64 paise from its previous close of 60.54 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 61.18 and 60.69 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.85 and for Euro stood at 81.46 on August 01, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 59.11, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 102.6861. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.
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