Indian rupee resumes winning streak on dollar inflows

19 Jan 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee resumed upward journey on Thursday, hovering around two-month high, on the back of sustained capital inflows amid positive cues from share markets. Foreign portfolio investments have jumped sharply recently, which has added to improving sentiment on the currency. Increase in import duties on gold and silver, freeing of interest rates on non-resident Indian (NRI) deposits by the RBI and intermittent intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by selling dollars in the foreign exchange market have helped rupee to move from 54 to 50 against dollar in a one month.

Finally the rupee ended at 50.25, stronger by 14 paise from its previous close of 50.39 on Wednesday. It has touched a high and a low of 50.45 and 50.08 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 50.2890 and for Euro it stood at 64.6664 on January 19, 2012. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 65.53 and the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 77.6010. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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