KARACHI: Pakistani rupee extended losses against the bone for the fifth straight session as the demand for the US currency from the importers hotted up owing to the opening of new LCs(letters of credit).
The original unit downgraded by 0.37(Rs0.82) on a day- on- day base to reach 219.71 in the interbank request, according to the State Bank of Pakistan(SBP), down in value from the former close of 218.89.
The bone also strengthened in the open request as the rupee lost 0.50 to close at 226.20.
Judges have said that the original unit will remain rangebound in the ongoing week, depending on the demand for note by importers as the central bank has started to clear pending letters of credit.
Dealers believe that rising importer demand for the bone was the reason the rupee reversed its former trend of appreciation against the bone. Still, bone transformations by exporters have dropped.
Talking to Geo.tv, economist and former counsel to the civil ministry of finance Dr Khaqan Hassan Najeeb the movement of a currency in a request- grounded exchange rate can be largely told by three factors — request sentiment, enterprise and fundamentals.
“The rather unruly movement that was seen in the rupee before all the way to 240 was incompletely sentiment and incompletely enterprise,” the economist said.
With the element of enterprise decelerating and the liquidation of import bills held abroad, the rupee saw a correction to nearly Rs 218, Khaqan said.
“The exchange rate movement is likely to be more unnaturally driven dependent on bone inrushes and the foreign exchange reserves held by the state bank of Pakistan,” he said.
“At the same time managing the current account deficiency is an important influence in the request- grounded exchange rate movement for coming months,” Khaqan said.
The central bank’s foreign exchange reserves dropped by $303 million to $7.596 billion as of October 7 due to external debt disbursements.
The central bank’s reserves are enough to cover hardly one month’s worth of significances.
