Indian rupee protracting its depreciation streak slips past 56 psychological mark

24 Jul 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee, protracting its southbound journey to the third straight session, depreciated past 56 psychological mark due to strong demand for American greenback from banks and importers, particularly oil firms. Indian currency also weakened substantially on account of dwindling global risk appetite after International rating agency, Moody’s downgraded its sovereign rating outlook for Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to negative, which was seen as the first step in stripping Europe’s three top-rated economies of their AAA credit rating. Meanwhile, weakness of regional counterparts counterbalanced the impact of positive local equities. On the global front, euro fell against the dollar after weak German economic data fanned concerns about slowing growth even in Europe's largest economy.

Finally the rupee ended at 56.12, weaker by 14 paise from its previous close of 55.98 on Monday. It has touched a high and low of 56.17 and 55.90 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 56.01 and for Euro it stood at Rs 67.83 on July 24, 2012. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 71.58, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 86.8905. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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