Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Rupee reaches record low, but here’s why govt is not worried

......The ministry’s chief economic adviser, Raghuram Rajan, said authorities, including the RBI, the SEBI and government, were ready to act if needed to stop a runaway currency market. Rajan argued that the extent of the rupee’s slide had taken it into undervalued territory. On a trade-weighted basis, however, the rupee is fairly valued to slightly over-valued. In real effective exchange rate (REER) terms, the rupee was at 105.74 in May against six of its key trading partners, above the 100 that denotes fair value.........

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