Rupee turns weak tailing the slump in equity markets

03 Apr 2013 Evaluate

Indian rupee turned weak on Wednesday, though the trade remained range-bound initially but the decline in local and regional equity markets weighed on the sentiments. In early deals, losses were capped with some overseas borrowing related inflows from a large steel company, but the Indian currency turned lower as the local equities slumped in final hours on some political uncertainty. Overseas strength in dollar against the euro and yen on some positive economic data from US too weighed. Meanwhile, weak manufacturing data across the euro zone was putting pressure on the euro.

Finally the rupee ended at 54.44, weaker by 17 paise from its previous close of 54.27 on Tuesday. The currency touched a high and low of 54.46 and 54.34 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 54.38 and for Euro it stood at Rs 69.58 on April 3, 2013. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.15, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 82.0478. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai. 

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