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

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