Indian rupee, after making a gap-up start, was trading near three-week high level on Friday, tailing sharp spurt of local equities after Reserve Bank of India, in its annual report, affirmed that economy was emerging from recession amidst signs of improvement in mining and manufacturing activity, reversal in the corporate investment cycle, improved external demand, stabilizing global commodity along with improvement in macroeconomic pointers like fiscal deficit and inflation. Meanwhile, weakness of dollar overseas and continued FII inflows in equity and debt markets, also aided the sentiment of local currency. The FIIs as per Thursday’s data were net buyers in equities and debt segments, while overseas investors invested a total of Rs 305.60 crore in equities, they stood as net buyers of Rs 16071.97 crore in debt segment. On the global front, dollar hovered just below its 2014 peak against a basket of major currencies on Friday, with bulls turning cautious ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 60.45, stronger by 22 paise from its previous close of 60.67 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 60. 53 and 60.38 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.76 and for Euro stood at 80.55 on August 21, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.53, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 100.7213. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.
| Date | 1US$ | 1GBP |
| August 21, 2014 | 60.76 | 100.7213 |
| August 20, 2014 | 60.66 | 100.8076 |
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