Rupee negotiates first weekly advance since October on Friday

02 Dec 2011 Evaluate

India’s rupee completed its first weekly advance since October after joint efforts by central banks to tackle Europe’s debt crisis bolstered demand towards emerging-market assets. Unwinding of long dollar positions by traders in anticipation of a pick-up in foreign inflows post the Indian equity markets negotiated a first positive weekly close amidst four, took the Indian currency to a fresh two week high. The rupee was also boosted by bets that overseas investors will bring money in to invest in local debt, adding to greenback supply. The cap on the amount that overseas investors can invest in local debt had recently been raised by $10 billion, and an auction to allocate the higher overall limit to individual investors was concluded on Wednesday. On the global front, euro held on to recent gains on Friday, supported by expectations that US jobs data would show that the economy is slowly recovering.

Finally the rupee ended at 51.21, stronger by 15 paise from its previous close of 51.46 on Thursday. It has touched a high and low of 51.58 and 51.20 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India's reference rate for the dollar stood at Rs 51.35 and for Euro it stood at 69.1380 on December 2, 2011. While, the RBI's reference rate for the Yen stood at 66.02 and the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 80.5050. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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