Rupee wipes off initial gains; depreciates on global dollar rally

05 Jul 2013 Evaluate

Indian rupee, paring its initial gains, depreciated on Friday on fresh dollar demand from banks and importers, amid strengthening of US currency overseas. However, currency retreated significantly from the distantly close 61/$ level tracing local equities, which despite paring some of the gains by the close of trade, ended modestly in green. On the global front, the dollar edged higher ahead of the US jobs report for June. The gains in the indexes reflected decline of euro and the British pound after the European Central Bank and the Bank of England each indicated there were no plans to reduce stimulus.

Finally the rupee ended at 60.22, weaker by 8 paise from its previous close of 60.14 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 60.58 and 60.00 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 60.33 and for Euro it stood at Rs 77.80 on July 05, 2013. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 60.14, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 90.7868. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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