Slew of RBI measures strengthen Rupee

16 Jul 2013 Evaluate

Indian rupee although come off from 10 months high scaled in early deals, but ended stronger on Tuesday on dollar selling by banks after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unveiled slew of measures to arrest the local currency’s fall against the Greenback. Among the measures announced on Monday, the central bank set a ceiling of Rs 75000 crore ($12.6 billion) on the amount that banks could borrow from its daily repurchase agreement window, and also raised the rate charged to meet lenders' emergency funding needs to 10.25% from 8.25%, thereby making costlier for banks to access funds from the central bank. However, massive losses of local equity markets tempered some local unit's gains. On the global front, dollar fell against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as investors cut long bets ahead of testimony by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke that could give more clues on when US monetary stimulus will be scaled back.

Finally the rupee ended at 59.32, stronger by 54 paise from its previous close of 59.86 on Monday. The currency touched a high and low of 59.48 and 59.18 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 59.39 and for Euro it stood at Rs 77.72 on July 16, 2013. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 59.54, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 89.8965. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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