Indian rupee snaps three consecutive sessions’ appreciating streak on Friday

07 Dec 2012 Evaluate

Indian rupee, snapping three consecutive sessions winning streak, depreciated on Friday, tracing the local equities, which already factoring in the approval of FDI in Retail at Rajya Sabha, witnessed profit booking. Indian currency, also lost momentum after reports suggested that government was seeking to spend an extra Rs 308.4 billion ($5.70 billion) in the current fiscal year ending March 2013, to meet its upwardly revised fiscal deficit estimate, thereby reigniting fears that country’s fiscal deficit once again would overshoot above the government’s new target of 5.3% of GDP due to sluggish revenue collection from its telecom auction and divestments. Besides this, strong demand for the American currency by oil importers, also weighed on the sentiment of Indian currency. On the global front, euro fell to a nine-day low against the dollar on Friday after the Bundes Bank pruned its growth outlook for Germany, with the single currency being more vulnerable on prospects of a euro zone rate cut.

Finally the rupee ended at 54.47, weaker by 34 paise from its previous close of 54.13 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 54.55 and 54.09 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 54.20 and for Euro it stood at Rs 70.21 on December 07, 2012. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 65.77 the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 86.9993. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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