Rupee depreciates against US currency on increasing dollar demand

12 Mar 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee depreciated against dollar on Monday amid dollar demand from local oil refiners and cautious global risk appetite of investors on concerns over a slowdown in China. However rising domestic stocks were not able to strengthen the local currency. Meanwhile Index of Industrial Production (IIP) numbers for the month of January rose to 6.8%. With this industrial output data expectations of a rate cut from the Reserve Bank of India at its policy review later this week has gone down.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 49.97, weaker by 12 paise from its previous close of 49.85 on Friday. It has touched a high and a low of 50.01 and 49.89 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 50.0150 and for Euro it stood at Rs 66.1176 on March 9, 2012. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 61.31 the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 79.0087. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date1US$1GBP

March 9, 2012

50.0279.0087

March 7, 2012

50.5779.5670
(RBI-Reference Rate)  

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