Rupee ends marginally lower against dollar

26 Feb 2019 Evaluate

Indian rupee recovered from day’s low points, but failed to erase all losses and ended marginally lower against dollar on Tuesday, due to fresh dollar demand from banks and importers. Traders remained concerned with reports that the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into India is dropping and may suffer its first full-year decline since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. Inbound FDI dropped 7% to $33.5 billion in the nine months between April and December 2018, compared with $36 billion in the year-earlier period. The weak trade in the local equity market also adversely impacted local forex trade. However, local unit cut most of the early losses, taking support from the SBI Research report that Indian economy is likely to grow in the range of 6.6-6.7 percent during the third quarter of FY19. It added that for the full financial year, the growth will be 7.2 percent. On the global front, dollar held near a one-week low against its rivals on Tuesday as currency markets waited for testimony from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell that might give a further boost to risk appetite.

Finally, the rupee ended at 71.07, 10 paise weaker from its previous close of 70.97 on Monday. The currency touched a high and low of 71.35 and 70.99 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 71.09 and for Euro stood at 80.74 on February 26, 2019. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 64.16, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 93.35.    

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