Rupee strengthen against dollar as Sebi, RBI toughen stand

09 Jul 2013 Evaluate

Indian rupee appreciated against greenback on increased selling of the US currency by banks amid hopes that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will take more steps to stem the fall. The central bank and the market regulator’s measures to curb speculative trading in foreign exchange derivatives mainly helped rupee to recover from its all time lows. To arrest the rupee’s fall RBI has banned banks from proprietary trading in domestic currency futures and the exchange-traded options market, while Securities and Exchange Board of India increased the margin requirement on the domestic dollar-rupee forward trade to 100% of the traded amount, which means investors will have to shore up the full amount of the transaction at the time of the trade itself and not during settlement. Meanwhile, positive local equity markets and dollar’s weakness against other Asian currencies also supported domestic currency. 

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 60.11, stronger by 50 paise from its previous close of 60.61 on Monday. The currency touched a high and low of 60.25 and 59.65 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 61.04 and for Euro it stood at Rs 78.27 on July 08, 2013. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 60.40, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 90.8906. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date

1US$

1GBP

July 8, 2013

61.04 90.8906

July 5, 2013

60.33 90.7868
(RBI-Reference rate)

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