Rupee surges to two week high tailing rally in equities

24 Mar 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee continuing its bull run surged to over two weeks high on Monday supported by selling of dollar by banks and exporters and sustained foreign capital inflows. The domestic currency was also aided by the rally in the local equity markets, which surged to their fresh all time closing highs. Meanwhile, the Finance Ministry officials are due to meet their counterparts at the Reserve Bank of India on Friday to finalise the government's borrowing calendar for the April-September period. In global markets all other emerging market currencies, too moved higher after the euro strengthened against the dollar overseas. While, the yen weakened against the euro and dollar as the International Monetary Fund said the global economy was improving.

Finally, the rupee ended at 60.78, stronger by 14 paise from its previous close of 60.92 on Friday. The currency touched a high and low of 60.92 and 60.60 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.70 and for Euro stood at 83.80 on March 24, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 59.26, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 100.1053. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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