Rupee cools off from its six month high level on Friday

06 Oct 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee witnessing some consolidation, snapped a five days winning streak on Friday, following large outflows from a private equity firm's stake sale.  Carlyle Group LP raised $841 million in India's fourth-biggest equity deal this year by selling its remaining 3.7 percent stake in the country's top mortgage lender HDFC. Indian currency supported by second round of reforms by the government, appreciated to a six months high, but soon cooled off tracing the sharp cut in local equity markets. However, losses of local unit remain capped on account of appreciation of euro  to a two-week high against the dollar on Friday after the European Central Bank assured investors that it was ready to buy bonds to tackle the debt crisis.

Finally the rupee ended at 51.88, weaker by 13 paise from its previous close of 51.75 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 52.02 and 51.41 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 51.61 and for Euro it stood at Rs 67.1735 on October 5, 2012. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 65.83 the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 83.5704. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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