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"There is very strong pressure on the rupee to depreciate ... we have done a number of things and will continue to do things that we think have an impact of stabilising the rupee," Gokarn said while speaking on the sidelines of an event here this evening. The rupee today fell to its life-time low of Rs 55.03 a dollar but RBI was conspicuous by its absence at the interbank foreign exchange bank market.
Gokarn said the rupee is coming under pressure due to high demand from oil companies and the widening current account deficit. However, the key determinant for the rupee will be capital flows, Gokarn said. The rupee has been one of the worst performing currencies in Asia and has been consistently hitting lows in the last fortnight, in spite of RBI interventions of selling the greenback to arrest the slide.
So far this year, the rupee has lost nearly 18 per cent on the back of a 22 per cent hit between August and December 2011. Apart from the interventions from its USD 293-billion warchest, RBI has taken a slew of policy steps to increase flows including relaxing interest rates caps on non-resident deposits and asking exporters to convert half of their foreign currency earnings into rupee.
