The rupee appreciated by 10 paise to close at a nearly six-week high of 60.29 against the US dollar in the previous session tracking a solid rally in local shares and continued dollar selling by exporters and some banks.
Noting that the United States economic recovery is still not strong enough, the Federal Reserve has said it would pursue with the proposed $600-billion government securities buyout plan.
A massive outflows of foreign funds on the back of stricter participatory notes and renewed possibility of Fed lifting US interest rates largely impacted the domestic unit.
In addition, dollar's weakness against other currencies overseas also supported the rupee.
The bench posed questions to senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for one of the petitioners Soayib Qureshi, who has challenged the Centre's August 5, 2019 decision to abrogate the provision.
The Fed's interpretation of the increase in gas prices is the economist's basic mantra of supply and demand.
On Tuesday, the rupee had closed three paise down at 55.96 against the dollar amid foreign fund outflows and demand of the US currency from importers.
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This is its lowest level since August 30
The rupee had recovered from its 29-month lows by rising 39 paise to close at 67.63 on Friday.
The Indian rupee on Thursday appreciated by 12 paise to end at 66.71.
India's economy is forecast to grow at 4.8 per cent in 2013, down 1.3 per cent from its earlier projection, the UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 report said.
The home currency failed to keep momentum going and largely traded in a narrow range with positive bias in the absence of any market moving factors
On November 10, the US Federal Reserve had approved the application of credit card major to become a bank holding company and the change in status facilitated American Express to explore various government funding and lending programmes. In return to the said loan, American Express will issue and sell preferred stock of about $3.39 billion and warrants to purchase shares of common stock for up to 15 per cent of that amount to the Treasury.
The Nifty ended at 5,060, down 94 points.
Bouts of dollar demand from importers put pressure on the rupee
...helped by a Wall Street rally after the US Federal Reserve yesterday pledged to keep US interest rates low at least through mid-2013.
The rupee's gains came even as most emerging Asian currencies eased as the yuan fell beyond 6.20 to the dollar for the first time since April last year amid market speculation that the central bank will keep the currency weak as economic growth slows.
IMF has predicted a slowdown of world economic growth and approves of Fed Reserve's move of cutting its interest rate.
United States President-elect Barack Obama on Monday officially unveiled the economic team that will assist him in tackling what he termed 'an economic crisis of historic proportions'.Obama has named New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as US Treasury Secretary and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council.
The world economy has been run for too long by finance enthusiasts. It is time that finance sceptics began to take over.
'We will see a lot of investments from the private sector.' 'As long as we are not impacted by some global events, I think we will be in a strong place.'
Unwinding of long dollar positions by banks too aided the sentiment
ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank down between 0.2%-1.4% each.
Hearing the Centre versus the Delhi government over the issue of demarcation of power, a constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said an elected government needs to have control over the administration.
A United States judge has reserved ruling on a lawsuit filed in New York by a Sikh rights group against the Congress party in the anti-Sikh riots after hearing arguments by it that the case should be dismissed since the incidents of 1984 are India's internal matters.
Given below, in the table, are the estimated losses that some of the world's largest banks have suffered on account of home loan defaults in the US.
The 94-year-old economist was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from 1977 to 2006.
Healthy demand for the American unit from importers and corporate weighed on the rupee
Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair is accused of misusing funds from the UN oil for food program for Iraq.
Most Asian currency and equity markets too suffered steep losses due to US rate hike fears.
Unprecedented as it is, this steep cut in the interest rates effected by the Fed has the potential to dynamite the US dollar, the US economy and, by extension, the global economy.
Gold prices on Wednesday sky-rocketed by Rs 340 at Rs 11,510 per ten gram as investors directed their money to the precious metal after the dollar fell, sparked by Federal Reserve cutting key interest rates.
The dollar's strength against other currencies overseas limited the rupee's gain.
In August, the Fed announced that it would develop a "new interbank 24x7x365 RTGS with integrated clearing functionality to support faster payments in the United States". The Fed Board asked for comments on FedNow by November. In reply to this, Google mentioned its experience of launching Google Pay -- Google's payments app which uses the UPI -- in India.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has said and warned that restrictions on free trade would also hurt US standards of living.
A firming trend in domestic stock markets, however, capped the rupee fall to some extent
A three-member delegation of the Indian Banks' Association met senior executives of the US Federal Reserve and New York Banking Department to explore the prospects for increased presence of Indian banks in the United States.
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