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Indian rupee rangebound in near term, to rise a bit in a year: Reuters poll

2023.07.06 06:41


© Reuters. An India Rupee note is seen in this illustration photo June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration

By Shaloo Shrivastava and Anant Chandak

BENGALURU (Reuters) – The rupee will hold on to its recent gains against the dollar in coming months and strengthen marginally in a year, on strong macroeconomic trends and expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve is nearing the end of its hiking cycle, a Reuters poll showed.

Despite the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ending an already-modest rate hiking cycle well before many of its peers, the rupee is up nearly 1% for the year on large foreign capital inflows in a brightening economic outlook.

Asia’s third-largest economy was expected to grow 6.1% this fiscal year, a separate Reuters poll showed, making it the fastest-growing large economy in the world.

While regular interventions from the RBI have prevented the rupee from sliding, they have also stopped the currency from strengthening too much, leaving it trading in a tight range of 80.88-82.95 this year.

Median forecasts in the July 3-5 poll of 40 strategists showed the rupee will trade at 82.00/dollar in one and three months, 81.80/dollar in six months and 81.00/dollar in a year. That outlook is largely unchanged from last month.

The rupee was trading around 82.22/dollar on Wednesday.

“It mainly boils down to where the RBI will want the rupee to settle … last year the RBI spent a lot of reserves defending 80.00/dollar levels and they would not want those levels to be breached easily, even if the dollar weakens,” said Abhishek Upadhyay, senior economist at ICICI Securities.

“You would likely require some thematic shift, some big trigger for them to allow a bigger move.”

Around two-thirds of analysts polled expected the rupee to be at 82.00/dollar or weaker in one month, and none saw it going past the 81.50 mark.

More than 70% of analysts, 27 of 37, forecast the currency will change hands at 82.00/dollar or stronger in 12 months. Only two expected it to strengthen below 80.00/dollar.

“The U.S. central bank has suggested there might be two more rate hikes,” said Sakshi Gupta, principal economist at HDFC Bank. “If the data from the labor market and in terms of inflation turns out to be unfavorable … then that could be a risk to the forecast and the rupee could then move again towards 83.”

(For other stories from the July Reuters foreign exchange poll:)

 

 

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