Rupee tumbles against greenback

30 Mar 2022 Evaluate

Erasing previous session gains, Indian rupee weakened against dollar on Wednesday on emergence of demand for the greenback from importers amid surging crude oil prices and fuel rate hikes by the oil marketing companies fanned fears of inflation and interest rate hikes. At home, oil marketing companies raised prices of petrol and diesel by 80 paise a litre each on Wednesday, taking the total increase in rates in the last nine days to Rs 5.60 per litre. This is the ninth increase in prices since the ending of a four-and-half-month long hiatus in rate revision on March 22. Traders shrugged off Union minister Narayan Rane’s statement that the government is setting up a global market intelligence network to boost India's exports from the micro, small and medium enterprises sector. On the global front, dollar fell to its lowest in almost two weeks on Wednesday and the euro gained, with currency traders optimistic about peace talks in Ukraine, even amid warnings about the damage to Europe's economy.

Finally, the rupee ended at 75.94 (Provisional), weaker by 21 paise from its previous close of 75.73 on Tuesday. The currency touched a high and low of 75.97 and 75.62 respectively.

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