Rupee ended significantly stronger against dollar

06 May 2021 Evaluate

Indian rupee ended stronger against dollar on Thursday due to fresh selling of the American currency by banks and exporters. Domestic currency also derived its strength from strong gains in the local equity markets. Traders were taking comfort with US President Joe Biden's decision to back waiving intellectual property rights on vaccines. This will quicken the vaccination process enabling countries like India to come out of the pandemic faster. Traders shrugged off Industry chamber PHDCCI’s statement that imposition of partial lockdowns and curfews in many parts of the country, due to re-emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, has created incipient signs of economic slowdown in the coming months. On the global front; pound hovered around the $1.39 mark as traders waited for a Bank of England policy meeting later on Thursday where the central bank will say the British economy is rebounding strongly and that it might begin to slow its bond-buying.

Finally, the rupee ended 73.78, stronger by 13 paise from its previous close of 73.91 on Wednesday. The currency touched a high and low of 74.00 and 73.77 respectively.

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