Indian rupee, after making a good start, gave away most of its gains and concluded marginally stronger against dollar on sustained dollar selling by exporters. Local currency got some support with the global rating agency, Moody’s report which maintained positive outlook on India and said beyond the short-term negative impact on growth, demonetisation has the potential to raise government revenues and provide some fiscal space to support growth if required. Some support also came after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley dismiss the slowdown concerns, said that higher tax mop up indicates uptick in economic activity. He further added that demonetised notes had no role to play in the tax collections for December as people were allowed to pay taxes in the spiked currency only in November and the indirect and direct tax collections between April and December this year increased by 25 percent and 12.01 percent respectively compared to the same period last year. Additionally, strong gains in the local equity markets as well as strength of other Asian currencies against dollar added to the positive milieu for the local currency. On the global front, dollar dropped for a second day against the safe haven yen as trader’s unwound long positions before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump holds a news conference on January 11, in New York.
Finally, the rupee ended at 68.18, 2 paise stronger from its previous close of 68.20 on Monday. The currency touched a high and low of 68.20 and 67.98 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 68.06 and for Euro stood at 72.18 on January 10, 2017. While the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.88, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 82.69.The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.
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