Rupee rises 3 paise to settle at 89.65 against U.S. dollar

The rupee roseate 3 paise to settee astatine 89.65 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) connected the backmost of a weaker greenback. However, a emergence successful planetary crude lipid prices, coupled with overseas superior outflows, prevented sharper gains successful the section unit, according to forex traders.

At the interbank overseas exchange, the rupee opened astatine 89.67 and traded successful the scope of 89.59-89.85 earlier settling astatine 89.65 (provisional) against the greenback, up 3 paise from its erstwhile close.

The rupee connected Monday (December 23, 2025) pared archetypal gains to settee somewhat down by 1 paisa astatine 89.68 against the U.S. dollar. Anuj Choudhary, Research Analyst, Mirae Asset ShareKhan, said, “The rupee gained connected Tuesday (December 23), connected a anemic U.S. dollar index.

"However, a surge successful crude lipid prices capped crisp gains. We expect the rupee to commercialized with a affirmative bias connected wide weakness successful the U.S. dollar and a bounce backmost successful the home equities," Mr. Choudhary said Adding that the hold successful the commercialized woody betwixt India and the U.S. is expected to measurement connected the rupee astatine higher levels.

"Investors whitethorn ticker retired for Q3 GDP information from the U.S. connected Tuesday (December 23). USD-INR spot terms is expected to commercialized successful a scope of ₹89.30-89.90," helium added. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.34% little astatine 97.95.

Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading 0.18% higher astatine $62.18 per tube successful futures trade. On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex declined 42.64 points to settee astatine 85,524.84, portion the Nifty was marginally up by 4.75 points to 26,177.15. Foreign organization investors offloaded equities worthy ₹457.34 crore connected Monday (December 23), according to speech data.