Currency dealers say the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened in the currency markets, and may have even bought some bonds anonymously from the secondary markets.
The launch comes amid the world's most expansive coronavirus lockdown, which has crippled businesses and hurt trading volumes in the country's financial markets.
Such curtailed hours, in which bond and currency markets operated between 10 am and 2 pm, from 9 am to 5 pm in normal times, were in force till April 17
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While the rupee hit its lifetime low of about 76.30 a dollar, the 10-year bond yields fell to 6 per cent, as Covid-19 led to an unprecedented slide in financial assets worldwide
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"The central bank may have been intervening in these markets in small measures in the past too, but Friday's action was quite loud," said a senior currency dealer requesting anonymity.
The only respite to the market sentiment is stimulus measures that nations are implementing to counter the economic impact from the coronavirus.
The new coronavirus outbreak can now be described as a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization announced Wednesday.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bought $7.46 billion and sold $530 million in the market in November, it said in the bulletin which was released on Saturday
In early 2016, emerging-market currencies began a two-year rally that took MSCI Inc.'s gauge to a record as investors sought higher-yielding assets
China and the United States have softened their stance on trade tensions, but this is nowhere a resolution, say currency dealers
The depreciation of the renminbi in recent weeks has raised fears that China is aiming to counter US tariffs by weaponising its currency
Sovereign borrowing in foreign currency has inherent risk
While the bond market is relatively conservative about their interest rate expectations, the currency market seems to be projecting that interest rates should be much sharper
The banks being sued include: Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley