Rupee's rise against dollar continues for second straight day

30 Apr 2019 Evaluate

Continuing its upward momentum for the second day, Indian rupee ended significantly higher against dollar on Tuesday, amid easing crude prices and weakening of the greenback against some currencies overseas. Trades took encouragement with Union minister Suresh Prabhu’s statement that the country is working on district-based developmental model to achieve aggregate growth. He said if the national growth was at 6% and those of the districts was 4%, the aggregate growth would be 10%. Market participants paid no heed towards the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) statement that pre-monsoon rainfall from March to April, a phenomenon critical to agriculture in some parts of the country, has recorded 27 per cent deficiency. On the global front, euro extended gains on Tuesday after first quarter growth numbers for the euro zone were stronger than expectations, dispersing some of the negativity surrounding the outlook for the single currency.

Finally, the rupee ended at 69.56, 46 paise stronger from its previous close of 70.02 on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 69.90 and 69.52 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 69.83 and for Euro stood at 78.07 on April 30, 2019. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 62.68, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 90.33.

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