Rupee recoups most of the early losses; yet ends a tad weak on Monday

03 Nov 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, after making an extremely weak start, which was past the perilous ‘61.50/$’ level, recouped most of the losses and ended little changed on Monday tailing the recovery of local equities and dollar sales by custodian banks on behalf of their foreign fund clients. However, weakness prevailed in today’s trading session of account of somber macro-economic reports. On the macro-front, India's fiscal deficit reached nearly 83% of its full-year target in the first half of the year, while core sector growth slowed down to 1.9% in September. However, the currency failed to draw any sense of relief from good factory output data, which rebounded from 9-month low to 51.6 in October. On the global front, dollar jumped to an almost seven-year high versus the yen as slowing Chinese manufacturing growth and the Bank of Japan’s unexpected stimulus highlighted the diverging growth outlook for the U.S. and Asian economies.

Finally the rupee ended at 61.40, weaker by 4 paise from its previous close of 61.36 on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 61.51 and 61.37 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 61.41 and for Euro stood at 76.66 on November 03, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 54.48, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 98.0624. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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