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Rupee falls sharply after Yellen renews call for raising US debt ceiling

The rupee opened at 73.8250 a dollar, down from its previous close of 73.48. At 10.50 AM, the rupee was at 73.6750, brought down by nationalised banks selling dollars

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The rupee had also come under pressure after Yuan depreciated. The rupee tracks both dollar and the Chinese currency closely

Anup Roy Kolkata
The Indian rupee depreciated sharply on Monday after US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen renewed her call for raising the country's debt ceiling to avoid a possible debt default by the world's largest economy.

“The US has never defaulted. Not once. Doing so would likely precipitate a historic financial crisis that would compound the damage of the continuing public health emergency. Default could trigger a spike in interest rates, a steep drop in stock prices and other financial turmoil. Our current economic recovery would reverse into recession, with billions of dollars of growth and millions of jobs lost," wrote Yellen in