Monday, August 8, 2016

Today Rupee opens flat at 66.84 per dollar at currency market

        
The Indian rupee opened flat at 66.84 per dollar on Tuesday versus previous close 66.84.

The USD-INR pair continues to trade in the 66.50-67/dollar range with the strong portfolio flows getting absorbed by strong intervention," he said. The dollar held on its gains against Japan's currency, after strengthening the most in 1 1/2 weeks yesterday.

US DOLLAR INDEX (USD)

The American currency surged by 0. 2 percent as markets discount the robust release of ADP and NFP employment data from the nation that came f ar better than the expected levels in July’16. Amid uncertain global conditions, there has been a decent demand for workers which clearly indicates that the labour markets have finally found some stability. Moreover, rate cut by the bank of England led to Cable weakness against the DX which boosted the demand for the US Dollar Index. US Dollar Index made a n intraday high of 96.09 and closed at 96.3 4 levels on Mon day.

OUTLOOK
Rupee is likely to trade sideways as markets play safe prior to the RBI monetary policy review that is scheduled to be held to day at 11 am . Investors feel that the RBI gove rnor will leave the policy rates unchanged, leaving it to his successor to decide on future rate cuts.
 
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