Rupee rises 25 paise to close at 86.33 against U.S. dollar

A cashier checks Indian rupee notes wrong a country astatine a substance presumption successful Ahmedabad. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

The rupee appreciated 25 paise to adjacent astatine 86.33 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Wednesday (January 22, 2025), supported by affirmative home equities and brushed U.S. dollar index.

Forex traders said the rupee is apt to witnesser precocious volatility with a antagonistic bias up of cardinal events successful the planetary and home economical landscape.

Moreover, the wide uncertainty astir the planetary system continued to measurement connected some currencies and commodities, keeping investors connected edge.

At the interbank overseas exchange, the rupee opened astatine 86.56 against the greenback. During the day, the section portion touched an intraday precocious of 86.30 and a debased of 86.71.

It yet closed astatine 86.33 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar, up 25 paise from its erstwhile close.

On Tuesday (January 21, 2025), the rupee fell 13 paise to 86.58 against the U.S. dollar.

"We expect the rupee to stay mostly anemic connected underlying spot successful the U.S. dollar and wide weakness successful the home markets. Importer request for dollars whitethorn besides pressurise the rupee. However, immoderate extended sell-off successful crude lipid whitethorn enactment the rupee astatine little levels," Anuj Choudhary – Research Analyst astatine Mirae Asset Sharekhan, said.

Mr. Choudhary further noted that markets whitethorn spot immoderate volatility connected incoming statements and announcements by the Trump administration. "USD-INR spot terms is expected to commercialized successful a scope of 86.20 to 86.65," helium added.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading down 0.15% to 107.89 arsenic traders pondered implicit the Trump Tariff Plan.

Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, roseate 0.48% to $79.67 per tube successful futures trade.

Crude lipid prices had fallen owed to fears of pugnacious US policies and had touched $78 per barrel, a 4% diminution from caller highs pursuing President Trump's notation of expanding U.S. lipid output.

In the home equity market, the 30-share BSE Sensex roseate 566.63 points, oregon 0.75%, to settee astatine 76,404.99 points, portion the Nifty roseate 130.70 points, oregon 0.57%, to 23,155.35 points.

Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) remained nett sellers successful the superior markets connected Tuesday, arsenic they offloaded shares worthy ₹5,920.28 crore, according to speech data.

Published - January 22, 2025 04:47 p.m. IST