Rupee depreciates against dollar on Thursday

15 Oct 2020 Evaluate

Indian rupee ended lower against dollar on Thursday, on account of sustained dollar demand from importers and banks. Traders were concerned with International Monetary Fund (IMF) statement that India's public debt ratio, which remarkably remained stable at around 70 per cent of the GDP since 1991, is likely to jump by 17 percentage points to nearly 90 per cent because of increase in public spending due to COVID-19. Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department said ‘in our projections, the increase in public spending, in response to COVID-19, and the fall in tax revenues and economic activity, will make public debt jump up by 17 percentage points to almost 90 per cent of GDP’. However, weakness in domestic equity markets also put pressure on Indian currency. On the global front; Sterling struggled to cling on to the $1.30 level on Thursday as traders waited to see whether a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels would signal any progress in troubled Brexit talks with Britain.

Finally, the rupee ended at 73.36, 5 paise weaker from its previous close of 73.31 on Wednesday. The currency touched a high and low of 73.41 and 73.22 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 73.45 and for Euro stood 86.27 on October 14, 2020. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 69.65, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 94.81.

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