Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Rupee extends drop on weak shares; dollar gains

Rupee extends

The rupee comprehensive its decline in afternoon trading Monday on the back of losses in domestic share and broad strength in the dollar alongside major currencies abroad.

Per 1 pm, the partially exchangeable rupee at 44.59/60 per dollar, weaker than the preceding close of 44.5150/5250. The directory of the dollar alongside six major currencies was up 0.4 percent.

Indian shares were restless and were trading slightly lower. Essar Energy raised $ 1950000000 through London IPO last week, and part of the surplus may be invested in India, traders said, that could help the rupee.

A month offshore non-deliverable forward contracts were quoted at 44.70, weaker than the onshore spot rate. In money futures market, was the most traded near-month dollar-rupee contracts on the National Stock swap over and MCX-SX, both at 44.6850, the total traded volume on both connections for about $ 3.2 billion.

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