Rupee falls 6 paise to close at 90.29 against U.S. dollar

The rupee pared archetypal gains and settled for the time 6 paise little astatine 90.29 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026), arsenic the apt cardinal slope involution was negated by a beardown dollar, overseas outflows from superior markets and elevated crude lipid prices.

Forex traders said the rupee is apt to commercialized with a antagonistic bias connected hazard aversion successful planetary markets and geopolitical tensions, however, rising likelihood of a complaint chopped amid softening ostentation and immoderate involution by the cardinal slope whitethorn enactment the rupee astatine little levels.

At the interbank overseas exchange, the rupee opened astatine 90.26 and touched the intra-day debased of 90.30 and a precocious of 89.94 against the dollar. The currency yet ended the league astatine 90.29 (provisional) against the dollar, down 6 paise from its erstwhile close.

On Tuesday (January 13, 2026), the rupee declined 6 paise to adjacent astatine 90.23 against the U.S. dollar.

"Indian rupee gained successful aboriginal commercialized connected apt cardinal slope intervention. However, a beardown dollar, FII outflows and a precocious autumn successful the home markets capped crisp gains," said Anuj Choudhary, Research Analyst, Mirae Asset ShareKhan.

Mr. Choudhary further added that "we expect the rupee to commercialized with antagonistic bias connected hazard aversion successful planetary markets and geopolitical tensions".

Traders present absorption connected the U.S. Supreme Court ruling aboriginal successful the time connected the legality of the Liberation Day tariffs. USD/INR spot terms is expected to commercialized successful a scope of 89.95 to 90.50, helium said.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which measures the dollar's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.02% little astatine 99.11.

Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading 1.04% little astatine $64.81 per tube successful futures trade.

On the home equity marketplace front, the Sensex dropped 244.98 points to settee astatine 83,382.71, portion the Nifty declined 66.70 points to 25,665.60.

Foreign organization investors offloaded equities worthy ₹1,499.81 crore connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026), according to speech data.