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Jul 25, 2014
India’s rupee completed a weekly
gain on optimism the nation will attract more capital as limits
on inward investment in government debt and the insurance
business are relaxed.
The Reserve Bank of India this week increased the cap for foreign institutional investors by $5 billion and said additional purchases must be in notes maturing in at least three years. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said yesterday the cabinet approved a budget proposal of allowing 49 percent foreign direct investment in the insurance industry.
“The decisions to raise the FII debt limit and taking the process of FDI insurance forward are clearly positive for the rupee,” said Gaurav Sharma, a senior currency analyst at Religare Commodities Ltd. in Noida, outside New Delhi. “There are inflows happening but the month-end dollar demand from oil importers is limiting rupee gains.”
The currency rose 0.3 percent this week to 60.1050 per dollar at the close in Mumbai, the first gain since the five days ended July 4, according to prices from local banks compiled by Bloomberg. It was unchanged from yesterday.
One-month implied volatility, a measure of expected moves in the exchange rate used to price options, fell 24 basis points, or 0.24 percentage point, to 5.58 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It dropped 94 basis points from a week ago.
Three-month offshore non-deliverable forwards on the rupee were little changed at 60.78 per dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Forwards are agreements to buy or sell assets at a set price and date. Non-deliverable contracts are settled in the greenback.
To contact the reporter on this story: Kartik Goyal in Mumbai at kgoyal@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: James Regan at jregan19@bloomberg.net Jeanette Rodrigues
The Reserve Bank of India this week increased the cap for foreign institutional investors by $5 billion and said additional purchases must be in notes maturing in at least three years. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said yesterday the cabinet approved a budget proposal of allowing 49 percent foreign direct investment in the insurance industry.
“The decisions to raise the FII debt limit and taking the process of FDI insurance forward are clearly positive for the rupee,” said Gaurav Sharma, a senior currency analyst at Religare Commodities Ltd. in Noida, outside New Delhi. “There are inflows happening but the month-end dollar demand from oil importers is limiting rupee gains.”
The currency rose 0.3 percent this week to 60.1050 per dollar at the close in Mumbai, the first gain since the five days ended July 4, according to prices from local banks compiled by Bloomberg. It was unchanged from yesterday.
One-month implied volatility, a measure of expected moves in the exchange rate used to price options, fell 24 basis points, or 0.24 percentage point, to 5.58 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It dropped 94 basis points from a week ago.
Three-month offshore non-deliverable forwards on the rupee were little changed at 60.78 per dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Forwards are agreements to buy or sell assets at a set price and date. Non-deliverable contracts are settled in the greenback.
To contact the reporter on this story: Kartik Goyal in Mumbai at kgoyal@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: James Regan at jregan19@bloomberg.net Jeanette Rodrigues
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