Rupee resumes its southbound journey on Thursday

03 Nov 2011 Evaluate

Indian rupee after showcasing some optimism in the previous session, has again resumed its southbound journey on Thursday tracing the prevailing pessimism into the Indian equities markets on account of escalating worries over Europe's debt crisis unleashing financial chaos. Concerned over the reports stating the possibility of Greek voters rejecting the 130 billion euro bailout package, which could result into a disorderly default, with the fallout affecting European banks and a ripple across the global financial system, mainly prompted the investor’s to seek the safety of safe heaven dollar. Meanwhile, subdued trend of regional counterparts also affected the local unit’s momentum. On the global front, euro slipped back close to a three-week low on Thursday, hurt by jitters over Greece's plan for a referendum on the euro zone debt deal, with market players seeing the risk of more downside in the next couple of months.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 49.38, weaker by 17 paise from its previous close of 49.21 on Wednesday. It has touched a high and low of 49.48 and 49.31 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 49.25 and for Euro it stood at 67.64 on November 02, 2011. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 63.06 and the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 78.7348. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date1US$1GBP
November 02, 201149.25 78.7348
November 01, 201149.07 78.7817
RBI-Reference rate
 

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