Erasing prevision session drubbing, Indian rupee ended higher against dollar on Tuesday owing to dollar sale by exporters and banks. Besides, healthy growth in the domestic equity market and dollar weakness against other currencies overseas added to the rupee gains. Sentiments were upbeat as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to spend at least $20 billion more to support the rupee and increase the forex kitty through the reminder of the financial year, taking its overall forex intervention to $93 billion. Adding optimism, ICRA’s latest report stated that the economic activity recorded a broad-based improvement in December as against November, showing a return of demand. It said most of the indicators have displayed a year-on-year (y-o-y) expansion in December 2020, which signals a ‘tentative return to pre-COVID normalcy’. On the global front, dollar dropped on Tuesday as investors prepared for U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen to talk up the need for major fiscal stimulus and commit to a market-determined exchange rate when she testifies later in the day.
Finally, the rupee ended at 73.17, 11 paise stronger from its previous close of 73.28 on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 73.31 and 73.14 respectively. The reference rate for the dollar stood at 73.22, and for Euro stood 88.41 on January 18, 2021. While the reference rate for the Yen stood at 70.57, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 99.34.
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