Rupee appreciates to one month’s high post BSP decides to cast vote in favour of UPA govt

06 Dec 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee, appreciating for third consecutive session, scaled a one month’s high on Thursday, tracing turnaround of local equities, as investors grew hopeful of government being able to push through foreign direct investment in retail post Mayawati-led, Bahujan Samaj Party decided to cast vote in the favour of UPA led government, in the upper house of parliament on Friday. On the global front, euro slipped against the dollar and yen on Thursday, with investors wary of the single currency on expectations the European Central Bank may lower growth forecasts for the region. The ECB is widely expected to keep interest rates on hold, but is likely to present a grim outlook for the euro zone economy in 2013 and offer clues on its future policy path.

Finally the rupee ended at 54.13, stronger by 42 paise from its previous close of 54.55 on Wednesday. The currency touched a high and low of 54.58 and 54.05 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 54.46 and for Euro it stood at Rs 71.11 on December 06, 2012. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 66.10 the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 87.6287. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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