Rupee gives up all early gains; treads water despite positive macro-economic data

14 Oct 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, after making a strong start has given up its gains and was trading little changed from its previous close on Tuesday tailing subdued local equities. However, losses were capped on account of release of two good macro-economic data, with the first one being all time low September Retail Inflation data and second one being the September WPI data, which came in at five year low at 2.38% v/s 3.74% in August. Additionally, strength of other currencies against dollar also is limiting any kind of fall of Indian currency. Nevertheless, prevailing caution ahead of Maharashtra state elections on Wednesday. On the global front, dollar probed recent lows on Tuesday as risk aversion amid the fall in global equities favoured peers such as the yen, with uncertain timing about the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike further undermining the U.S. currency's appeal.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 61.12, little changed from its previous close of 61.10 on Monday. The currency has touched a high and low of 61.15 and 60.94 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 61.24 and for Euro stood at 77.60 on October 13, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 57.08, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 98.6849. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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