Rupee concludes last trading session of CY2018 on upbeat note

31 Dec 2018 Evaluate

Extending its previous session’s gains, Indian rupee concluded last trading session of Calendar Year (CY) 2018 on an upbeat note on Monday, as exporters and banks intensified selling of the US currency. Rupee throughout the day remained positive, taking support with the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) statement that the country is expected to witness strong economic growth in 2019, after it has emerged as the fastest growing major world economy this year despite growing global vulnerabilities. It added that better demand conditions, settled GST implementation, capacity expansion from growing investments in infrastructure, continuing positive effects of reform policies and improved credit offtake especially in the services sector at 24% will sustain the robust GDP growth of 7.5% in 2019. Moreover, weakness of dollar in the overseas market aided the local currency to gain more ground. On the global front, dollar was broadly steady in thin year-end trading on Monday as tensions over a trade dispute between the United States and China faded on expectations of progress in trade talks.

Finally, the rupee ended at 69.77, 18 paise stronger from its previous close of 69.95 on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 69.95 and 69.74 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 69.79 and for Euro stood at 79.78 on December 31, 2018. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 63.21, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 88.54. 

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