The Indian rupee today opened strong by 21 paise against the dollar on expectations of good capital inflow from foreign funds in the domestic equity markets amid a weak $ overseas.

In active trade at Interbank Foreign  Exchange (forex) market, the domestic currency gained 21 paise to quote at 47.28 in early trade. It had ended up seven paise at 47.49 yesterday.

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The BSE benchmark Sensex had closed up 461.08 (3.14%) at 15,127 points yesterday after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's optimistic economic growth estimates enlivened the markets.

Meanwhile in early trade today, Hong Kong's Hang Seng was trading 1 per cent up and Japan's Nikkei is quoting stronger by 1.5 per cent.

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