Govt efforts will help rupee appreciate against dollar: Piyush Goyal
The minister said that a stable economy will propel India to become one of the top 3 economies in the world.
The minister said that a stable economy will propel India to become one of the top 3 economies in the world.
The US Dollar Index (DXY) has slipped below $100 for the first time after April 2022. When the Dollar Index falls, the Indian rupee appreciates and the dollar weakens, which is leading to increase in fund flows from FIIs and FPIs, SBI Securities said in a report.
The Indian rupee came down against the US dollar on Monday, crossing the Rs 81 mark vis-a-vis a dollar.
The rupee on Monday ended 31 paise lower at 82.78 at the interbank foreign exchange market. The Indian currency opened 10 paise higher at 82.57 on the support of easing crude oil prices and touched a high of 83.01 during intraday trade.
India's foreign exchange reserves during the week that ended on October 14 fell to an over two-year low of USD 528.367 billion, a drop of USD 4.5 billion from the previous week.
The Indian rupee recouped most of its early losses and closed marginally lower at 69.28 to the US dollar after the Reserve Bank in a widely expected move cut key interest rates by 0.25 percentage point.
The benchmark BSE Sensex was trading with gains of 150.56 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 38,864.41; while the NSE Nifty was trading at 11,692.05, up 50.25 points, or 0.43 per cent. Meanwhile, brent crude, the global benchmark, was trading at 74.14 per barrel lower by 0.28 per cent.
Fresh dollar demand from banks and importers weighed on the Indian currency.
"We have delivered for both the quarter and fiscal exceptionally well to post $1 billion (Rs 7,022 crore) for the year under review (2018-19)."
The domestic currency opened at 69.07 a dollar and fell further to touch the day's low of 69.46. It finally settled at 69.42 per dollar, down 25 paise over its previous close
