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India's foreign exchange reserves fall to lowest in 23 months

RBI's defence of the rupee cited as reason

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Earlier this week, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that the central bank’s interventions in the foreign exchange market are not just aimed at preventing excessive volatility but also anchoring expectations around the depreciation of the rupee

Bhaskar Dutta Mumbai
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) headline foreign exchange reserves declined by $7.9 billion to $553.11 billion in the week ended September 2, the latest central bank data showed.

The reserves are at their lowest since October 9, 2020, the RBI data showed. Analysts cited the RBI’s defence of the rupee through dollar sales amid a globally strengthening greenback as one of the reasons for the fall in reserves.

Incidentally, during the week that ended September 2, the rupee marked a fresh intraday low of 80.13 per US dollar.

The decline in the foreign exchange reserves in the week ended

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