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RBI Faces $100 Billion Challenge After Record Currency Defense

RBI Faces $100 Billion Challenge After Record Currency Defense
Bloomberg Markets Friday 10 July 2026, 01:00 UTC By Bhaskar Dutta, Subhadip Sircar, Anup Roy 1 min read
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RBI Faces $100 Billion Challenge After Record Currency Defense Over the past two years, India’s central bank built one of the world’s largest bearish dollar bets to support a persistently weak rupee. It now faces the challenge of unwinding that position without destabilizing the currency market. With a spate of recent measures expected to attract foreign capital, the Reserve Bank of India has started trimming its massive short dollar forward position, a stock of commitments to sell the...

RBI Faces $100 Billion Challenge After Record Currency Defense Over the past two years, India’s central bank built one of the world’s largest bearish dollar bets to support a persistently weak rupee. It now faces the challenge of unwinding that position without destabilizing the currency market. With a spate of recent measures expected to attract foreign capital, the Reserve Bank of India has started trimming its massive short dollar forward position, a stock of commitments to sell the greenback at a future date. The book had ballooned to a record $106.7 billion in May, as per Bloomberg calculations based on RBI data.
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