Rupee recovers after two sessions’ losses

07 Jan 2013 Evaluate

Snapping earlier two session’s losses, Indian rupee recovered against American currency on the back of positive opening of local equity markets. Foreign fund inflows into Indian equities and dollar selling by banks helped local unit to gain some strength against dollar. Moreover, investor’s sentiments were boosted on expectations of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India in its third quarter monetary policy review on January 29. Meanwhile, euro also recovered from Friday’s losses against the dollar.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 55.00, stronger by 6 paise from its previous close of 55.06 on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 55.04 and 54.90 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 54.84 and for euro it stood at Rs 71.54 on January 4, 2013. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 62.50, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 88.1646. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of .a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date

1US$

1GBP

January 4, 2013

54.8488.1646

January 3, 2012

54.42

88.2888

(RBI-reference rate)

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