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The rupee fell 7 paise to 88.77 against the dollar successful aboriginal commercialized connected Monday (November 3, 2025), weighed down by higher crude lipid prices and continuous outflow of overseas superior amid uncertainties implicit planetary trade.
According to forex traders, antagonistic sentiment successful home equities besides pressured the Indian currency, adjacent though a anemic American currency provided immoderate cushion astatine a little level.
At the interbank overseas exchange, the rupee opened astatine 88.73 and slipped further to commercialized astatine 88.77 against the greenback, down 7 paise from its erstwhile closing level.
The rupee had ended 1 paisa little astatine 88.70 against the dollar connected Friday, a time aft crashing 47 paise connected Thursday, pursuing the commentary of U.S. Federal Reserve seat Jerome Powell.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, fell 0.04% to 99.59.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, roseate 0.31% to ₹64.97 per tube successful futures trading.
On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex declined 258.83 points oregon 0.31% to 83,679.88 successful aboriginal trade, portion the Nifty fell 47.95 points oregon 0.19% to 25,674.15.
Foreign organization investors sold equities worthy ₹6,769.34 crore connected Friday, according to speech data.
The RBI information released connected Friday showed the country's forex reserves dropped by $6.925 cardinal to $695.355 cardinal during the week ended October 24. The reserves had accrued by $4.496 cardinal to $702.28 cardinal during the erstwhile week.
On the macroeconomic front, the Union government's fiscal shortage stood astatine 36.5% of the full-year people astatine the extremity of the archetypal fractional of FY26, according to information released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) connected Friday.
In the archetypal six months of the erstwhile fiscal year, the spread betwixt the government's expenditure and gross was 29% of the Budget Estimates (BE) of 2024-25.
