Rupee falls further against US dollar
Live MintMumbai: The Indian rupee extended its losses on Wednesday against the US dollar after ruling Bhartiya Janata Party suffered a setback in the three state elections, and also after the government announced a former bureaucrat as a central bank chief. Analyst expects that the markets focus will shift now towards assessing continued central bank independence after two governers in a row stepped aside before their terms ended. From BJP’s perspective, the three big states are agrarian and could therefore raise concerns about agrarian distress being a real voter issue”, said Nomura research in a note to its investors. However, we do expect talks of a grand coalition to raise political uncertainty going into the 2019 general elections”, Nomura report added.