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The rupee roseate 6 paise to 90.85 against the U.S. dollar successful aboriginal commercialized connected Thursday (February 26, 2026) connected the backmost of a weaker greenback and FII inflows.
A affirmative commencement to the league astatine the home equity markets lent further enactment to the section portion portion a emergence successful planetary crude lipid prices, coupled with geopolitical uncertainties, capped crisp gains, according to forex traders.
At the interbank overseas exchange, the rupee opened astatine 90.86 against the greenback earlier inching up to 90.85, higher by 6 paise from its erstwhile close.
The rupee stayed range-bound and settled with a summation of 4 paise astatine 90.91 against the U.S. dollar connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026).
"As the dollar scale fell and Asian currencies gained contiguous (Thursday) the rupee opened higher... A risk-on sentiment successful the markets and RBI selling adjacent 91.00 levels ensured yesterday (Wednesday) besides that rupee is incapable to transverse 91.00 levels with FPIs being buyers of equity and sellers of dollars," Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director, Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP, said.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.13% down astatine 97.57.
Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, roseate 0.21% to $71.00 per tube successful futures trade.
On the home equity marketplace front, the Sensex climbed 303 points to 82,579.16 successful aboriginal trade, portion the Nifty roseate 85.1 points to 25,567.60.
On Wednesday (February 25, 2026), overseas organization investors purchased equities worthy ₹2,991.64 crore, according to speech data.
