Continuing its winning run for the second straight session, Indian rupee ended significantly higher against dollar on Friday, due to sustained selling of the US currency by exporters and banks. Traders took encouragement with exit polls indicating both Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat going in favour of ruling BJP. Exit polls conducted by various polling agencies for news channels have predicted that BJP would retain Gujarat with a reduced margin of seats in the 182-member assembly, though one of them predicted a sweep. Some cheer also spread among the investors with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is slated to come out with an update of its projections of India’s growth rate along with the rest of the world in January, sees benefits in the medium-term from the demonetisation exercise which India carried out about a year ago. That apart, the rupee derived its strength from strong gains in the local equity markets as well as strength of other Asian currencies against dollar. On the global front, dollar slipped to a nine-day low against yen on Friday, after wrangling in the United States Congress over a bill to change the tax code dented confidence that the reforms would be pushed through in their current state.
Finally, the rupee ended at 64.04, 30 paise stronger from its previous close of 64.34 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 64.17 and 63.96 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 64.09 and for Euro stood at 75.52 on December 15, 2017. While the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 57.13, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 86.13. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.
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