Rupee ends substantially weak against dollar on Wednesday

06 Jan 2016 Evaluate

Indian rupee ended weaker against dollar on Wednesday due to demand for American currency from banks and importers, tracking cautious trading in Asian currency markets on concerns over China's economic slowdown. Investor’s sentiment dampened after Chinese yuan sank to a five-year low and losses in local equity markets. Sentiments remained under pressure after Industry body CII's President Sumit Mazumder said that the economy is not doing as good as it was expected and the pace of reforms have slowed down. Investors failed to draw any solace from report that India's services sector rebounded from flat activity in November and showed an encouraging growth in December, with the Nikkei Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) climbing to a ten-month high of 53.6, compared with 50.1 last month. On the global front, US Dollar is bullish against the major currencies ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) policy meeting in December.

Finally, the rupee ended at 66.83, 24 paise weaker from its previous close of 66.59 on Tuesday. The currency touched a high and low of 66.83 and 66.65 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 66.71 and for Euro stood at 71.70 on January 06, 2016. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 56.19 the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 97.7730. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai. 

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