Rupee recovers from early losses; ends little changed on Friday

14 Mar 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, after getting a weak start and recovering substantial ground thereafter, ended little changed on Friday on the back of prevailing risk-off sentiment due to ongoing tension in Ukraine and weak China data that renewed concerns about global growth, which weighed on all the emerging market’s currencies, including rupee. Additionally, late recovery of local equity market also aided the local currency to cut back some of its early losses, while 9-month low February headline inflation data  too rendered some support. Besides, the Indian currency also bounced off one week low level on some corporate dollar inflows from a large engineering company as well as from a software services company. On the global front, yen was in demand on Friday, heading for its biggest weekly gain in more than a month against the dollar, underpinned by tensions in Ukraine and as worries about the health of the Chinese economy festered.

Finally, the rupee ended at 61.20, little changed from its previous close of 61.18 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 61.55 and 61.16 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 61.51 and for Euro stood at 85.22 on March 14, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 60.57, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 102.2166. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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