The rupee ended flat today, retreating from a one-week high hit earlier in the session as shares fell for a second consecutive session and caution prevailed ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting this week.
The rupee closed at 60.6450/65 per dollar compared with 60.60/61 on Friday, after hitting a one-week high of 60.43 earlier in the session, a level last seen on April 21.
Flows were dominated by large month-end dollar demand from oil companies, although that was offset by strong selling of the U.S. currency by a large engineering firm earlier in the day.
Trading in the rupee is expected to remain range-bound with investors monitoring global factors such as tensions in Ukraine, as well as foreign flows into domestic markets, all while the outcome of elections looming next month.
Fed is expected to continue tapering in a measured pace of $10 billion, and this is not a surprise and a non event.The rupee is expected to remain range bound with a likely band of 59.80 to 61.30 until election results in India.
A second consecutive daily fall in shares took the steam ,out of the momentum in the rupee, with investors also focused on the outcome of the Fed's two-day meeting ending on Wednesday, as a deeply divided Fed struggles to lay the groundwork for more difficult decisions ahead.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards, the one-month contract was at 60.94/61.04 while the three-month was at 61.75/85.
The rupee closed at 60.6450/65 per dollar compared with 60.60/61 on Friday, after hitting a one-week high of 60.43 earlier in the session, a level last seen on April 21.
Flows were dominated by large month-end dollar demand from oil companies, although that was offset by strong selling of the U.S. currency by a large engineering firm earlier in the day.
Trading in the rupee is expected to remain range-bound with investors monitoring global factors such as tensions in Ukraine, as well as foreign flows into domestic markets, all while the outcome of elections looming next month.
Fed is expected to continue tapering in a measured pace of $10 billion, and this is not a surprise and a non event.The rupee is expected to remain range bound with a likely band of 59.80 to 61.30 until election results in India.
A second consecutive daily fall in shares took the steam ,out of the momentum in the rupee, with investors also focused on the outcome of the Fed's two-day meeting ending on Wednesday, as a deeply divided Fed struggles to lay the groundwork for more difficult decisions ahead.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards, the one-month contract was at 60.94/61.04 while the three-month was at 61.75/85.