The rupee weakened as the dollar rose to a 20-year high due to the European energy crisis.

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The rupee started Monday on a weak note as the dollar soared to a new two-decade high driven by an energy crisis in Europe after Russia turned off a a gas supply pipeline to the region, leaving the euro near its 20-year trough.


Bloomberg showed the Indian currency was last changing hands at 79.8138 per dollar, compared to its previous close of 79.8025.

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On Friday, the rupee ended lower versus the dollar, but closed up 0.1 per cent for the week, its first gain in three.

That suggests more drawdown from the country’s forex reserves, which have now fallen to over two-year lows and are down over $80 billion from last year’s peak.

The domestic currency last week traded between 79.30 and 80.12 range gyrating between interventions from the Reserve Bank of India and widespread dollar strength.

Last week’s reach is “our new help and obstruction levels” for the USD/INR pair, a dealer at a Mumbai-based bank told Reuters. It will be “all in all an errand to take out the 80 level”, he said, adding that the mental level “will keep on drawing in” examiners and exporters.

The euro fell because of Russia’s choice to for all time shut down its primary gas supply pipeline to Europe, which filled worries about an energy shortfall and a drag on monetary development. Thus, the dollar record leaped to 110.02, another two-decade top.

Following the out of this world dollar Asian monetary forms fell with the Korean won down 0.6 percent, and the seaward Chinese yuan declining to 6.9378 to the dollar.

Oil costs climbing additionally didn’t look good for the rupee.

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