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Rupee could touch 70/USD in a month or so: Deutsche

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Reuters MUMBAI

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee could touch 70 against the U.S. dollar in a month or so, although some revival is expected in the currency by the end of the year, Deutsche Bank said in a report on Wednesday.

"We continue to believe that fundamentally the rupee is undervalued and has overshot its equilibrium level substantially, but as numerous episodes of past currency crises have amply demonstrated, under a scenario of deep pessimism, currencies can overshoot substantially and remain so for a long time," economists at the bank wrote in the report.

"India, we fear, is entering such a zone".

The partially convertible rupee dropped to a record low of 64.52 per dollar on Wednesday

 

(Reporting by Swati Bhat; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)

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First Published: Aug 21 2013 | 3:57 PM IST

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