Topic
Currencies
The dollar and the currencies trade is priced in, read as levels against their own history rather than daily moves: who is actually weakening, against whom, and what that does to the price of traded goods.
Data for this topic
- The rupee fell through a rate rise, then rose 1.4% in two fixingsMarkets
Three of the RBI archive's four weakest rupee fixings came on 7–9 October. From the 9th to the 13th, across five policy announcements, the rupee gained 1.4%.
- Brent rose 10% in a week. In rupees it set a recordThe week
Brent was $125.44 on 6 October, 10.1% above 29 September. On 2 October a barrel cost ₹13,051, the most in a series from 1987; by 6 October, 7.4% less.
- The dollar is at its 24th percentile. The rupee is at its 97th.Markets
The broad dollar has closed below every session of 2024 and 2025, yet the rupee and yen sit in the weakest tenth of their five-year ranges against it.
