Rupee recovers lost ground following weak opening

24 Jul 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee opened lower against American currency and breached the 56-mark, amid increase in demand for the dollar from banks and importers, particularly oil firms. However, currently local unit is trading positive as it found some support from large dollar sales by a petrochemical company, which pulled out rupee from its lower level. Investors were cautious over whether government can deliver on policy reforms after presidential elections last week. Meanwhile, rupee also tracking weak euro, which pummeled against multiple currencies on worsening euro zone worries and Moody's downgrading Germany's sovereign outlook to negative.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 55.94, stronger by 4 paise from its previous close of 55.98 on Monday. It has touched a high and low of 56.10 and 55.90 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 55.76 and for Euro it stood at Rs 67.43 on July 23, 2012. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 71.42, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 86.7971. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date1US$1GBP

July 23, 2012

55.76 86.7971

July 20, 2012

55.15 86.5768
(RBI-reference rate) 

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