Rupee settles significantly higher against dollar

18 Feb 2022 Evaluate

Rupee ended significantly higher against dollar on fresh selling of dollar by bankers and exporters on Friday, on hopes of a diplomatic solution to the East-West standoff over Ukraine. The proposed US-Russia talks spurred optimism about the volatile geopolitical situation in Ukraine. Sentiments were also upbeat as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged multilateral financial institutions to increase funding especially to low and middle income countries to prepare them to deal with pandemic situations in the future. She said that low income and middle income countries do not have enough resources and need global support to face challenges. Additional support also came as India and the United Arab Emirates will sign the first ever bilateral Free Trade Agreement between the two countries. India-UAE trade was expected to revert to pre-pandemic level this year and touch $60 billion in this financial year. On the global front, Sterling edged higher versus the dollar on Friday but was unchanged versus the euro, helped by better-than-expected UK retail sales numbers.

Finally, the rupee ended at 74.66 (Provisional), stronger by 40 paise from its previous close of 75.06 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 75.05 and 74.60 respectively.

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