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The rupee appreciated 38 paise to 90.40 against the U.S. dollar successful aboriginal commercialized connected Thursday (February 12, 2026), supported by overseas money inflows and suspected RBI intervention.
Forex traders said overseas money inflows, portion not massive, provided a intelligence anchor. Moreover, the RBI has been softly ensuring that liquidity remains abundant successful the banking system.
At the interbank overseas speech market, the rupee opened astatine 90.55 against the U.S. dollar, past gained momentum and touched 90.40, registering a emergence of 38 paise implicit its erstwhile close.
In the archetypal trade, the rupee besides touched 90.56 against the American currency.
On Wednesday, the rupee depreciated 22 paise to adjacent astatine 90.78 against the US dollar connected Wednesday.
"The RBI has been softly ensuring that liquidity remains abundant successful the banking system. With surplus liquidity hovering adjacent Rs 3 trillion — the highest successful six months — banks are flush with cash," CR Forex Advisors MD Amit Pabari said successful a note.
Pabari further noted that elevated crude lipid prices continued to hover similar a soundless taxation connected the economy. Geopolitical tensions remained unresolved, keeping hazard appetite restrained.
"Meanwhile, dependable dollar request persisted successful the background. Add to that the lingering uncertainty astir the U.S.-India commercialized model — including the earlier revisions to the White House information expanse — and the temper people turned cautious," helium said.
Forex traders said that portion markets initially welcomed the India-US commercialized deal, caller concerns person emerged aft the White House released its information sheet.
The information expanse highlights cardinal presumption of the agreement, including that India volition destruct oregon trim tariffs connected each US concern goods and a wide scope of US nutrient and cultivation products.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.05 per cent little astatine 96.78.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading 0.42% higher astatine $69.69 per tube successful futures trade.
On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex declined 349.87 points to 83,883.77 successful aboriginal trade, portion the Nifty was down 106.60 points to 25,847.25.
On Wednesday, overseas organization Investors purchased equities worthy Rs 943.81 crore, according to speech data.
