Rupee settles marginally higher against dollar

09 Sep 2020 Evaluate

Erasing all of its initial losses, Indian Rupee ended marginally higher on Wednesday on fresh selling of dollar by bankers and exporters. Traders took some support with a private report that Indian economy is expected to climb from a deeper trough in the calendar year 2020 (CY20) and see a stronger rebound in the year 2021. Markets participants also took a note of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board member Manish Sabharwal’s statement that India needs more banks for sustaining high growth and doubling the credit-to-GDP ratio to 100 percent. He also said the country needs immediate reforms in banking, compliance, labour laws and education because hope is not a strategy. However, weakness in the domestic equity market and fresh border tensions between India and China restricted the local unit's further gains. On the global front, pound fell to its lowest level in six weeks against the dollar on Wednesday as new legislation by the British government on the country's post-Brexit plans stoked fears of a derailment of trade talks with the European Union.

Finally, the rupee ended at 73.55, 5 paise stronger from its previous close of 73.60 on Tuesday. The currency touched a high and low of 73.73 and 73.47 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 73.42 and for Euro stood 86.80 on September 08, 2020. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 69.12, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 96.56.

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