Rupee pare early gains to make a flat closing

18 Mar 2014 Evaluate

The Indian rupee pared all its early gains to end flat on Tuesday, as there was dollar demand from the oil importers and the local equities too gave up their gains by the end. Earlier, the domestic currency made a strong start coming out of a long weekend on fresh selling of the American currency by banks and exporters amid heavy foreign capital inflows. Initially Banks and exporters were seen reducing their dollar position due to sustained foreign capital inflows into equity market but later cautiousness increased and rupee along with equity markets started losing pace, finally managing to end flat for the day on exporters dollar demand. In the global markets, there was weakness in the other emerging market currencies and the Chinese yuan deepened its month of losses against the dollar on Tuesday, while, the dollar held gains against a basket of major currencies before the Federal Reserve starts a two-day meeting. 

Finally, the rupee ended at 61.20, unchanged at its previous close on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 61.20 and 60.88 respectively.The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.94 and for Euro stood at 84.89 on March 18, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 59.90, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 101.3703. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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