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The rupee depreciated 34 paise to adjacent astatine 94.67 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Monday (June 22, 2026), weighed down by the spot of the American currency successful the overseas market.
Forex traders said the rupee witnessed volatility arsenic dependable indebtedness and deposit inflows pulled the home currency successful 1 way, portion the deficiency of clarity connected the West Asia bid deal and a steadfast dollar pulled it the different way.
At the interbank overseas speech market, the rupee opened astatine 94.42, registering a diminution of 9 paise from its erstwhile close. In intraday trade, the rupee traded successful the scope of 94.24 to 94.76.
At the extremity of Monday's (June 22) trading session, the USD/INR was quoted astatine 94.67 (provisional), little by 34 paise implicit its erstwhile close.
On Friday (June 19), the rupee pared astir of its archetypal gains and settled higher by 7 paise astatine 94.33 against the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading astatine 100.88, up 0.03%, amid hawkish Fed and the fragile U.S.-Iran commercialized deal.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading little by 1.75% astatine $79.16 per tube successful futures trade. On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex climbed 291.17 points to settee astatine 77,094.07, portion Nifty was up 89.80 points to 24,102.90.
Foreign organization investors turned buyers connected Friday (June 19), purchasing equities worthy ₹4,859.07 crore connected a nett basis, according to speech data.
On the planetary front, high-level Iran warfare talks successful Switzerland ended connected Monday (June 22) with lower-level talks planned for the remainder of the week arsenic Iran and the United States agreed to make a "de-confliction cell" to code the warring successful Lebanon.
The talks marked the commencement of a 60-day diplomatic process that seeks to scope a imperishable woody to extremity the Iran war. Meanwhile, Iran insisted it had again unopen the Strait of Hormuz implicit the weekend, the constrictive transition of the Persian Gulf important to vigor shipments, portion the U.S. said postulation continued.
