Rupee prolongs southbound journey on Thursday

17 Nov 2011 Evaluate

Indian rupee after hitting a fresh 32-month low level in previous session depreciated further on Thursday tracing local equities, which slumped in trade as lack of concrete measures to stem Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis pounded investor’s confidence. Comments made by deputy governor of RBI also failed to underpin the sentiment. Subir Gokarn said, 'India's central bank will be careful about using foreign exchange reserves excessively to protect depreciation of the rupee.’ Meanwhile, recovery of euro was also offset with massive demand of American currency from oil importers. The euro recovered from five-week lows against the dollar and the yen on Thursday as investors chose to book some profit and take stock of Europe's debt crisis ahead of bond sales by Spain and France.

Finally the rupee ended at 50.90, weaker by 15 paise from its previous close of 50.75 on Wednesday. It has touched a high and low of 50.92 and 50.60 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 50.72 and for Euro it stood at 68.4619 on November 17, 2011. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 65.86 and the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 79.8770. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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