Rupee scales fresh eight-month high levels; appreciates sub 60/$ level

28 Mar 2014 Evaluate

Indian rupee, besides resuming its four day gaining streak and strengthening to eight month high level, appreciated sub ‘60/$’ level on Friday on the back of record high level of local equities. However, the Indian currency faced stiff resistance below the psychological ‘60/$’ level as RBI’s reportedly bought dollar via state-run banks to halt the sharp appreciation in the rupee and shore up its foreign exchange reserves. Notably, the gains of Rupee came ahead of RBI’s annual monetary policy review on April 1, 2014 amidst expectation that its chief would leave key policy rate steady at 8%. On the global front, euro dropped to three-week low against the dollar on Friday, with investors wary given strong rhetoric from European Central Bank officials about its recent strength and awaiting German inflation data that could undermine it further.

Finally the rupee ended at 59.94, stronger by 38 paise from its previous close of 60.32 on Thursday. The currency touched a high and low of 60.18 and 59.70 respectively. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reference rate for the dollar stood at 60.09 and for Euro stood at 82.57 on March 28, 2014. While, the RBI’s reference rate for the Yen stood at 58.83, the reference rate for the Great Britain Pound (GBP) stood at 99.8498. The reference rates are based on 12 noon rates of a few select banks in Mumbai.

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