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Rupee Steadies as Tehran-Washington Thaw Eases Indian Ocean Risk Premium MALE / MUMBAI - The Indian rupee clung to its modest weekly recovery on Tuesday, a small but consequential pause in a year of slippage, after fresh signals from indirect United States-Iran talks lifted sentiment across South Asian currency desks.
For finance ministries from New Delhi to Colombo, and for the dollar-sensitive economies of the Maldives and Bangladesh, the diplomatic shift is being read less as a Middle Eastern story than as a regional balance-of-payments story.
Treasury traders in Mumbai described the mood as a controlled exhale. The rupee had been grinding against the dollar for weeks, dragged by foreign portfolio outflows and a stubborn crude bid.
Reports that backchannel exchanges between Washington and Tehran had moved further than expected pulled some of that pressure off the screen overnight.
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