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The rupee fell 5 paise to 89.95 against the U.S. dollar successful aboriginal commercialized connected Monday (December 29, 2025) amid overseas money outflows and a muted opening successful the home equity markets.
Forex traders said overseas portfolio investors proceed to offload Indian equities, which has been weighing connected the Indian rupee successful the past fewer months. At the interbank overseas exchange, the section portion opened astatine 89.95 against the dollar, down 5 paise from its erstwhile close.
On Friday, the rupee depreciated 19 paise to adjacent astatine 89.90 against the U.S. dollar.
"FPIs travel into Indian equities, a sustained instrumentality of overseas buying would beryllium supportive for the rupee successful the coming year, which has been the worst-performing currency successful the emerging marketplace and Asian markets," said Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director astatine Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.02 per cent little astatine 98.00.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading 0.92% higher astatine $61.20 per tube successful futures trade.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal has said that India and the U.S. stay engaged successful concluding a fair, balanced and mutually beneficial bilateral commercialized agreement.
"This ongoing engagement helps anchor marketplace assurance astatine a clip of planetary uncertainty," CR Forex Advisors MD Amit Pabari said.
Pabari further said, "The RBI’s beingness continues to enactment arsenic a beardown backstop. With spot interventions, liquidity tools and guardant marketplace management, the cardinal slope has shown wide intent to forestall disorderly moves successful the currency." On the home equity marketplace front, the 30-share benchmark scale Sensex roseate 22.24 points to 85,063.69 successful archetypal trade, portion the Nifty was up 18.10 points to 26,060.40.
Foreign organization investors offloaded equities worthy ₹317.56 crore connected Friday, according to speech data.
Meanwhile, India's forex reserves jumped by $4.368 cardinal to $693.318 cardinal during the week ended December 19, the Reserve Bank said connected Friday.
The wide kitty had accrued by $1.689 cardinal to $688.949 cardinal successful the erstwhile week.
