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The rupee depreciated 14 paise to adjacent astatine 90.70 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026), connected dollar request from importers and geopolitical tensions.
Forex traders said the rupee is trading with a flimsy antagonistic bias amid geopolitical tensions and elevated crude lipid prices. Dollar request from importers whitethorn besides pressurise the rupee. However, FPI inflows whitethorn enactment the section portion astatine little levels.
At the interbank overseas speech market, the rupee opened astatine 90.56 against the U.S. dollar, and touched a debased of 90.75 and a precocious of 90.46 against the greenback successful intraday trade.
The rupee yet settled astatine 90.70, registering a autumn of 14 paise implicit its erstwhile close.
On Tuesday (February 10, 2026), the rupee pared archetypal losses and settled connected a affirmative note, higher by 10 paise astatine 90.56 against the U.S. dollar.
"Indian rupee declined contiguous connected dollar request from importers and geopolitical tensions. A surge successful crude lipid prices, too, weighed connected the rupee. However, a anemic US dollar and overseas inflows cushioned the downside. Dollar weakened connected disappointing ADP non-farm employment and retail income information from the US," said Anuj Choudhary, Research Analyst, Mirae Asset ShareKhan.
Forex traders said portion markets initially welcomed the India-U.S. commercialized deal, caller concerns person emerged aft the White House released its information sheet.
The information expanse highlights cardinal presumption of the agreement, including that India volition destruct oregon trim tariffs connected each US concern goods and a wide scope of U.S. nutrient and cultivation products.
This includes dried distillers’ grains, reddish sorghum, histrion nuts, and caller and processed fruit, definite pulses, soybean oil, vino and spirits, and further products, and India has committed to buying much American products and acquisition implicit $500 cardinal of U.S. energy, accusation and connection technology, agricultural, coal, and different products.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.26% little astatine 96.54.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading 1.44% higher astatine $69.78 per tube successful futures trade.
On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex dropped 40.28 points to settee astatine 84,233.64, portion the Nifty was up 18.70 points to 25,953.85.
On Tuesday (February 10, 2026), overseas organization investors purchased equities worthy ₹69.45 crore, according to speech data.
