Rupee expected to weaken more in coming months
Live MintMumbai: The rupee is expected to further weaken in the coming months as Trump’s presidency strengthens the dollar at least in the near-term, experts said, adding that the central bank's interventions in the currency market are likely to ease. “There is a pending depreciation pressure visible on the rupee and that is seen in the REER overvaluation of around 8%," said Kanika Pasricha, chief economic advisor, Union Bank of India. This possibly seems like one of those times when the rupee has moved a lot," said Abhishek Goenka, founder and chief executive of IFA Global, a treasury and forex advisory company. “This time round when we saw significant outflows in the equity markets, RBI was intervening aggressively but we used around $50-60 billion of reserves to defend the rupee," said Goenka. With Trump coming in on 20 January, we are going to see the rupee depreciate further to 87 levels by April-May," said Anindya Banerjee, vice-president, currency derivatives and interest rate derivatives at Kotak Securities.