Rupee strengthens against US dollar on Thursday

06 Feb 2020 Evaluate

Rupee strengthens against the US dollar on Thursday as higher opening in domestic equities and sustained foreign fund inflows strengthened investor sentiments. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) bought shares worth Rs 248.94 crore on Wednesday, exchange data showed. Rupee gained further after reports that the government could consider issuing bonds worth $5 billion with no limits on foreign investment next year in a bid to list the bonds on global indices and attract more foreign funds. Some private report states that India's government is likely to issue the bonds in several tranches of at least $400 million each. Though, some upward momentum was capped ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy outcome. RBI is scheduled to announce the outcome of its sixth bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2019-20 later in the day. While, rising crude oil prices and strengthening of the American currency too restricted gains. On the global front, US dollar continued to strengthen against its major crosses after data showed the private sector added 291,000 jobs in January compared to 156,000 jobs added in the previous month.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 71.21, stronger by 4 paise from its previous close of 71.25 on Wednesday. The currency touched a high and low of 71.2875 and 71.1950 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 71.13 and for Euro stood at 78.68 on February 4, 2020. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 65.36, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 92.60.

 

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