{"id":25258,"date":"2026-06-23T01:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/rbi-sold-nearly-9-billion-in-forex-spot-market-in-april-amid-rupee-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:07:40","slug":"rbi-sold-nearly-9-billion-in-forex-spot-market-in-april-amid-rupee-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/rbi-sold-nearly-9-billion-in-forex-spot-market-in-april-amid-rupee-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI sold nearly $9 billion in forex spot market in April amid rupee pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131911331,imgsize-853024,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/file-photo-rbi.jpg\" alt=\"RBI sold nearly $9 billion in forex spot market in April amid rupee pressure\" title=\"According to the RBI's monthly bulletin released on Monday, the central bank purchased $16.225 billion and sold $25.169 billion in the spot market during April, resulting in a net sale of $8.944 billion.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"According to the RBI's monthly bulletin released on Monday, the central bank purchased $16.225 billion and sold $25.169 billion in the spot market during April, resulting in a net sale of $8.944 billion.\">According to the RBI&#8217;s monthly bulletin released on Monday, the central bank purchased $16.225 billion and sold $25.169 billion in the spot market during April, resulting in a net sale of $8.944 billion.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/reserve-bank-of-india\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Reserve Bank of India<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rbi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">RBI<\/a>) was a net seller of $8.944 billion in the spot foreign exchange market in April, marking the second consecutive month of intervention to support the rupee amid persistent currency pressures.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>According to the RBI&#8217;s monthly bulletin released on Monday, the central bank purchased $16.225 billion and sold $25.169 billion in the spot market during April, resulting in a net sale of $8.944 billion, PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>The intervention follows net sales of $9.758 billion in March.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The RBI said the Indian rupee remained under pressure during April and May due to prolonged geopolitical tensions and continued foreign portfolio investor outflows.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>However, the domestic currency recovered in June on the back of capital flow measures, easing geopolitical tensions and a decline in crude oil prices, according to the bulletin.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>&#8221; The Indian rupee (INR) remained under pressure in April and May amid protracted geopolitical tensions and continued foreign portfolio outflows. However, the currency recovered in June 2026, owing to capital flow measures, easing geopolitical tensions and falling crude oil prices,&#8221; the bulletin said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The RBI noted that during the current financial year so far, up to June 19, the rupee appreciated 0.2% against its end-March 2026 level.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>On Monday, the rupee settled at 94.63 against the US dollar, down 30 paise from its previous close.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>The domestic currency had ended the last financial year at 94.84 against the US dollar on March 31.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/rbi-sold-nearly-9-billion-in-forex-spot-market-in-april-amid-rupee-pressure\/articleshow\/131911335.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the RBI&#8217;s monthly bulletin released on Monday, the central bank purchased $16.225 billion and sold $25.169 billion in the spot market during April, resulting in a net sale of $8.944 billion. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was a net seller of $8.944 billion in the spot foreign exchange market in April, marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}