Rupee cools off from five-week high level; ends unchanged for second straight session

17 Jan 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, which soared to five-week high in intra-day trade, ended unchanged for second consecutive session on Friday on the back of steep losses of local equity markets. Earlier in the day, foreign banks selling the greenback likely on behalf of clients looking to invest in the debt market lifted the Indian currency higher. However, concerns over earnings of two blue chip stocks, ITC and TCS, mainly pushed equities lower, thereby weighing on the sentiment of Indian currency. Nevertheless, dollar’s weakness overseas curbed the downside of Indian currency. In the global market, U.S. dollar faded a little on Friday after a mixed bag of U.S. economic data left the market uncertain about its future direction.

Finally the rupee ended at 61.55, almost unchanged from its previous close of 61.54 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 61.55 and 61.32 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 61.35 and for Euro stood at 83.52 on January 17, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.78, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 100.2120. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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