Rupee falls 7 paise to settle at record low of 90.97 against U.S. dollar

The rupee depreciated 7 paise to adjacent astatine a grounds debased of 90.97 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026), arsenic beardown dollar request from metallic importers and persistent overseas money outflows dented capitalist sentiment.

Forex traders said rising geopolitical uncertainties, including renewed U.S. expansionary signals, person accrued hazard aversion and kept emerging marketplace currencies nether pressure.

Moreover, a sluggish home banal marketplace triggered by an exodus of overseas superior further weighed connected the section unit, they said.

At the interbank overseas exchange, the rupee opened astatine 90.91 and mislaid ground, touched an intraday debased of 91.06, and yet ended the time astatine an all-time debased of 90.97 (provisional) against the American currency.

On Monday (January 19, 2026), the rupee depreciated by 12 paise to adjacent astatine 90.90 against the greenback.

On December 16, 2025, the rupee reached its lowest intra-day level of 91.14 and its erstwhile lowest closing level of 90.93 against the American currency.

"The Indian rupee traded with a antagonistic bias and slipped beneath the 91-mark connected hazard aversion successful planetary markets and persistent FII outflows. However, a anemic dollar and involution by the RBI prevented a crisp fall," said Anuj Choudhary, Research Analyst, Mirae Asset ShareKhan.

Mr. Choudhary further noted that the rupee is expected to commercialized with a antagonistic bias connected overseas money outflows and hazard aversion successful planetary markets implicit the U.S. stance connected Greenland.

"Uncertainty implicit commercialized woody talks whitethorn besides pressurise the rupee. However, a anemic dollar and immoderate RBI involution whitethorn enactment the rupee astatine little levels. USD-INR spot terms is expected to commercialized successful a scope of 90.70 to 91.25," helium said.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which measures the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.91% little astatine 98.48.

Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading astatine $63.94 per tube successful futures trade.

On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex tumbled 1,065.71 points to settee astatine 82,180.47, portion the Nifty dived 353 points to 25,232.50.

Foreign organization investors offloaded equities worthy ₹3,262.82 crore connected Monday (January 19, 2026), according to speech data.