Wednesday, June 12, 2013

A long view of the rupee

.......there appears to have been some reluctance on the part of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to retrench a part of its foreign exchange reserves to stall the rupee’s depreciation. Left to itself the economic situation seemed to warrant depreciation of the rupee, and even moderately good capital inflows did not help to stall that decline.  Thus, a fundamental weakness in India’s balance of payments seems more important than inflows and outflows of foreign capital in influencing the course of the rupee............

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