RBI's likely interventions support rupee

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The US dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major global currencies, shot up on Thursday after data showed a higher-than-expected rise in headline inflation in the world's largest economy..

Higher US interest rates lead to a stronger dollar, exerting downward pressure on emerging market currencies like the rupee..

Mumbai: The rupee ended steady versus the US dollar Friday despite an overnight global surge in the greenback, suggesting likely Reserve Bank of India (RBI) interventions to rein in currency-market volatility amid apprehensions of further Federal Reserve rate increases...

"The rupee is still just not able to break that all-time high which is a clear indication that there is a massive supply at a particular level," he said.. While precise details on the RBI's interventions in the currency market are published with a two-month lag, weekly data suggests that the central bank has stepped up market interventions through dollar sales...

While saying that the RBI did not target a particular level for the rupee's exchange rate, Das said that the RBI's reserves had imparted confidence in markets and checked the rupee's depreciation despite global shocks like the Ukraine war...

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