Rupee strengthens for third straight session on Thursday

02 May 2019 Evaluate

Continuing strong recovery momentum for the third day, Indian rupee ended higher against US dollar on Thursday, driven by weakening of the greenback in overseas markets. Traders took support with a report stating that the growth of India's eight core sectors improved marginally to 4.7% in March 2019 against 4.5% in the same month last year, helped by a broad-based recovery in sectors such as cement, refinery products, steel, and coal.  Market participants paid no heed towards India Ratings and Research report which marginally lowered country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth projection for 2019-20 fiscal to 7.3% mainly due to below normal monsoon prediction and loss of momentum in industrial output. It had earlier projected India's GDP growth at 7.5%. On the global front, dollar resumed its decline on Thursday, shrugging off Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s relatively confident comments on the U.S. economy as survey figures suggested fears of a broadening economic weakness in Europe could be exaggerated.

Finally, the rupee ended at 69.37, 19 paise stronger from its previous close of 69.56 on Tuesday. The currency touched a high and low of 69.62 and 69.34 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 69.54 and for Euro stood at 77.88 on May 2, 2019. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 62.34, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 90.78.

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