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Saturday, November 8, 2025
TopicIndian Rupee

Topic: Indian Rupee

Poetic prose for Jaitley, a paean for Sindhu and the rupee does a Ben Stokes

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Rupee becomes Asia’s worst performer, poses risk to bond investors

A sharp drop in the rupee may wipe out most profits for offshore investors as they don’t usually hedge currency risk for short-term debt investments.

India must overhaul its foreign exchange market to boost export, balance out trade deficit

Achieving a market-driven realistic exchange rate mechanism for the dollar was one of the key policy goals of the 1990-91 economic reforms in India.

Rupee suffers biggest decline against Dollar over tensions in J&K on Article 370

The rupee weakened as much as 1.4% against the dollar, the most since December 2018.

Modi victory makes rupee a double-edged sword for RBI

RBI may have to rein in the rupee as foreign inflows are rising after election results and risk making Indian exports less competitive.

What it means for India to be removed from US currency manipulators watch list

The US compiles a list of countries which intervene in currency movements to obtain an ‘unfair trade advantage’. India is no longer on that list.

Is the Indian rupee overvalued?

From being Asia’s worst performing currency, Indian rupee turned on its head weeks before 2019 elections and further appreciated after BJP’s victory.

King of Indian bond sales warns of biggest crisis since Lehman

Axis Bank's Shashikant Rathi says the bond market is in 'complete chaos' since the shock defaults last year by IL&FS.

Most bearish forecaster sees rupee sliding to 80 per dollar

The prediction is way more bearish than the 71.25 median forecast in a Bloomberg survey & implies a drop of more than 11% from current levels.

Sensex ends 240 points lower after India carries out air strikes in Pakistan

The rupee depreciated 38 paise to 71.35 against the US dollar in early trade, and was still trading 9 paise lower over its previous close of 70.97

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Population causes poverty is the devil’s philosophy. It causes prosperity: Sauvik Chakraverti

Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.