Rupee rises 9 paise to close at 90.57 against U.S. dollar

The rupee pared archetypal losses and settled connected a affirmative enactment connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026), higher by 9 paise astatine 90.57 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar, supported by affirmative cues from home equities and weakening of the American currency successful the overseas market.

Forex traders said the rupee is witnessing sideways terms enactment arsenic the enactment from affirmative home equities and overseas money inflows was negated by geopolitical tensions and Dollar request from importers.

At the interbank overseas speech market, the rupee opened astatine 90.63 against the U.S. dollar, past mislaid immoderate crushed to interaction an intraday debased of 90.77 and a precocious of 90.48 against the greenback.

At the extremity of Tuesday’s (February 10) trading session, the rupee was quoted astatine 90.57 (provisional), registering a summation of 9 paise implicit its erstwhile close.

On Monday (February 9), the rupee witnessed volatile trading league and settled for the time connected a somewhat little note, down 1 paisa astatine 90.66 against the U.S. dollar.

“We expect the rupee to commercialized with a flimsy affirmative bias connected spot successful the home markets and commercialized woody optimism. Weak dollar and caller overseas inflows whitethorn further enactment the rupee,” Anuj Choudhary, Research Analyst, Mirae Asset ShareKhan, said

“However, geopolitical tensions and dollar request from importers whitethorn headdress crisp upside. Traders whitethorn stay cautious up of the non-farm payrolls study connected Wednesday (February 11). USD-INR spot terms is expected to commercialized successful a scope of 90.30 to 90.80,” Mr. Choudhary said.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s spot against a handbasket of six currencies, was trading 0.01% higher astatine 96.82.

The dollar scale has fallen beneath the 97 level amid ongoing weakness and shifting distant from dollar assets. The Chinese regulators person urged banks to chopped vulnerability connected U.S. Treasury vulnerability owed to U.S. argumentation risks.

Brent crude, the planetary lipid benchmark, was trading 0.16% little astatine $68.93 per tube successful futures trade.

On the home equity marketplace front, Sensex climbed 208.17 points to settee astatine 84,273.92, portion Nifty was up 67.85 points to 25,935.15.

On Monday (February 9), overseas organization investors purchased equities worthy ₹2,254.64 crore, according to speech data.