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India central bank's daily $1 billion FX defence struggles to turn rupee tide

India central bank's daily $1 billion FX defence struggles to turn rupee tide
Key takeaways
  • The Reserve Bank of India continues daily interventions of about $1 billion to support the rupee, but bankers report limited success in reversing its decline.
  • The rupee remains under pressure from broader market forces.
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India's central bank is selling about one billion dollars each day to stop the rupee from falling further against the US dollar. So far this has not worked well and the rupee keeps weakening.

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