Monday, October 21, 2013

While America was shuttered

......Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Duvvuri Subbarao must be thanking his lucky stars that his term in office ended when it did - right in the midst of the exodus of investors out of the country - on 3 September 2013. The capital flight out of India is no better depicted than by the nearly 20% drop in the Indian rupee versus the greenback from 54.79 rupee per US$ at the start of 2013 to a record low 68.15 rupee on the 28th of August. While the rupee's sharp depreciation was sparked by the sell-off in emerging markets ahead of widespread expectations of a taper in September, India's negative economic fundamentals - slowing growth, high inflation and ballooning budget and current account deficits (the highest among the BRICs) - greased the Indian currency's slide...............

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