Reuters Market Eye - The rupee is marginally higher in rangebound trade, at 61.82/83 versus Wednesday's close of 61.90/91.
Pair trying to break free from recent rangebound trade, some initial buying was there, but offered well.
Pair still trading below 100-day moving average.
Pair likely to move in a range of 61.70-62.20 with upticks to be sold, says a dealer with a forex broking firm.
Shares showing gains, up 0.6 percent.
Foreign funds were buyers of $1.63 mln in stocks on Wednesday, provisional exchange data showed.
Asian markets got the new year off to a sluggish start as Chinese economic data disappointed ahead of a raft of reports on global manufacturing due out through the session.
(Reporting by Subhadip Sircar)
