Rupee entices significant strength on Wednesday

28 Feb 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee tracing stronger regional peers and the dollar's losses versus major currencies ended substantially strong on Tuesday. Gains in local equity markets provided significant impetus to the Indian currency. Meanwhile, overseas funds, which stepped up purchases of local-currency company bonds to meet a quota deadline, also added to the glee. The Securities & Exchange Board of India auctioned $5 billion of corporate debt-purchase quotas on November 30 to foreigners, who must use the allocations by the end of today or let them expire. On the global front, euro edged higher ahead of the European Central Bank's second long-term refinancing operation due on Wednesday.

Finally the rupee ended at 49.08, stronger by 15 paise from its previous close of 49.23 on Monday. It has touched a high and a low of 49.21 and 49.03 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 49.1430 and for Euro it stood at Rs 66.0625 on February 28, 2012. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 60.99 the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 77.8573. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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