Rupee prolongs two sessions’ appreciating streak on continued dollar sales

27 Sep 2013 Evaluate

Indian rupee, extending previous two consecutive session’s appreciating streak, was trading stronger on Friday as foreign banks continued to sell dollars in the spot market while squaring off their long dollar positions in the offshore non-deliverable forwards. Large selling is being witnessed from foreign banks, over the last couple of days, mainly due to offshore flows with banks preferring to not roll-over their long dollar outstanding contracts in the non-deliverable forwards. However, local equity markets losses combined with some month-end dollar demand may restrict the further appreciation of Indian currency. On the global front, dollar held onto modest overnight gains on Friday but remained on track to end the week flat, hampered by the threat of a historic U.S. debt default hanging in the air and lack of clarity over when the Federal Reserve will scale back stimulus.

The partially convertible currency is currently trading at 61.82, stronger by 25 paise from its previous close of 62.07 on Thursday. The currency has touched a high and low of 62.00 and 61.80 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 62.22 and for Euro it stood at 84.10 on September 26, 2013. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 62.84, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 100.0594. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

Date1US$1GBP

September 26, 2013

62.22100.0594

September 25, 2013

62.69 100.2731

(RBI-Reference Rate)

 

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