Rupee snaps 3-day fall on Friday

19 Jul 2019 Evaluate

Snapping three day losing streak, Indian rupee staged a recovery against dollar on Friday, following dollar selling from banks and exporters. Sentiments turned optimistic with NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar’s statement that the focus of the second term of the Narendra Modi government is accelerated economic growth led by the private sector and private enterprise. He asserted that India will be at the cusp of a major transformation over the next five years. However, heavy losses in the domestic equity market along with dollar’s strength against major global currencies overseas restricted the local unit’s further up move. On the global front, euro fell against a rebounding U.S. dollar on Friday, as investors ramped up bets for a European Central Bank interest rate cut as early as next week.

Finally, the rupee ended at 68.80, 17 paise stronger from its previous close of 68.97 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 68.95 and 68.74 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 68.87 and for Euro stood at 77.43 on July 18, 2019. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 63.99, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 85.71.

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