
The Reserve Bank of India's $10 billion three-year dollar/rupee buy-sell swap auction was oversubscribed about two times, with a cutoff premium of 5.86 rupees. The central bank will inject about $10.04 billion equivalent of rupees into the banking system to ease a liquidity crunch.
The liquidity deficit had been about 2 trillion rupees.
Easing banking-system liquidity supports credit for Indian trade and processing, but the swap does not change the currency's direction much. Its effect on dollar-priced Indian agricultural exports is limited.
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