Indian rupee near to four-week high amid debt inflows

10 Jan 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee appreciated to near four-week high on Tuesday amid positive rally in the local share markets. The US currency weakened against euro and other major currencies overseas also helped local currency to gain. However, Dollar inflow increased as foreign funds bought government debt before limits on the amount of bonds they can buy expire in mid-January. The government has raised the ceiling on foreign institutional investment in government and corporate bonds by a total of $10 billion to help boost foreign inflows, in November. The auction for the limits was conducted on November 30 and rights to buy the bonds must be used by mid January. In January net inflows into Indian debt is stand at about $1.6 billion, compared with about $211 million for equities, according to the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

The partially convertible rupee is currently trading at 52.24, stronger by 27 paise from its previous close of 52.51 on Monday. It has touched a high and a low of 52.37 and 52.22 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 52.7325 and for Euro it stood at 67.0098 on January 9, 2012. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 68.54 and the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 81.3399. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date1US$1GBP
January 09, 201252.7325 81.3399
January 06, 201252.7838 81.7885
RBI-Reference Rate

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