Monday, February 13, 2017

Today Rupee strengthens marginally against US dollar

 
The Indian rupee Tuesday strengthened marginally against the US dollar tracking the gains in the Asian currencies markets.The local currency opened at 66.97 a dollar.the home currency was trading at 66.96—up 0.07% from its previous close of 67.02.

India’s retail inflation decelerated in January to 3.17% from 3.41% a month ago as prices of vegetables and pulses fell further.

Since the beginning of this year, the rupee has gained 1.36%, while foreign institutional investors have bought $319.70 million and $252.60 million from local equity and debt markets respectively.

Asian currencies were trading higher. South Korean won was up 0.21%, Singapore dollar 0.14%, Taiwan dollar 0.1%, Thai baht 0.05%, China Offshore 0.05%. However, Indonesian rupiah was down 0.04%.

The dollar index, which measures the US currency’s strength against major currencies, was trading at 100.98—up 0.02% from its previous close of 100.96.
 
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