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TopicRupees

Topic: Rupees

Rupee to hover near weaker side of 81/dollar, bond yields await RBI’s monetary policy decision

The rupee ended last week at 81.3175 per dollar but underperformed its Asian peers due to strong demand for the greenback from corporates.

Indian rupee’s recovery narrows onshore-offshore differential

By Nimesh Vora MUMBAI (Reuters) - The difference between the USD/INR onshore and the non-deliverable forward rates has narrowed on the back of the Indian rupee's rally to its highest in seven weeks.

To curb rupee’s decline, RBI asks local banks to not build positions in offshore markets

This is a step back from the directions it issued in 2020, when it allowed banks operating from the International Financial Services Centre Banking Units to trade in the NDF segment.

Sinking rupee is hurting Indian firms that haven’t hedged their foreign debt

As rupee slides, unhedged firms that swapped overseas debt into local currency and don’t have foreign-currency revenues face higher repayment costs.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.