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An SBI Ecowrap report says speculative activity in the foreign exchange market may have triggered the rupee's recent fall, as crude prices rose relentlessly from July. Merchant demand for dollars exceeded supply by $9-14 billion since February, while interbank supply was in surplus.
Speculation layered on top of oil-driven demand for dollars amplified the rupee's slide. Easing crude prices now reduce that pressure, which bears on India's import costs.
business-standard.comPress Trust of IndiaNov 28, 2018Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 312 past bearish macro events, Crude Oil (Brent) moved a median -1.7% over 5 sessions (38% higher; middle half -5.4% to +2.3%), and -1.7% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
