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PRE-MARKET INDIAN STOCKS NEWS: RBI unveiled measures to support the rupee, including a special USD window for state-run oil companies Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum, redirecting their dollar purchases away from the spot market

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PRE-MARKET INDIAN STOCKS NEWS: RBI unveiled measures to support the rupee, including a special USD window for state-run oil companies Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum, redirecting their dollar purchases away from the spot market

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  • RBI unveiled measures to support the rupee, including a special USD window for state-run oil companies Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum from Monday, redirecting their dollar purchases away from the spot market and tightening FX hedging rules as the currency trades near record lows, having depreciated nearly 7% this year. The measures are expected to raise hedging costs and slow demand for protection against further rupee weakness. (Newswires)

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Central banks defending a currency near record lows tend to reach first for administrative measures before rate action, and the special dollar window for state oil refiners is a classic example: pulling the largest, most predictable source of corporate dollar demand out of the spot market reduces visible pressure on the fix without touching reserves or policy rates. Episodes of this kind have historically bought time rather than reversed the trend, since the underlying driver, typically an oil import bill and portfolio outflows, is left intact; the usual sequence is an initial stabilisation in the pair, a drift higher in forward premia and onshore hedging costs as the tightened rules bite, and then a test of whether flows validate the defence. The actors here have prior form: the RBI has long preferred a managed depreciation with episodic intervention over a hard line, smoothing rather than defending a level, so the measures read as friction rather than a line in the sand. The distinction worth drawing is between spot relief, which the window can deliver mechanically, and the forward curve, where higher hedging costs transmit the tightening. Follow-ons to note are the size of any actual draw at the window from Monday, whether FX reserve data show concurrent spot intervention, and any signal that administrative steps are a bridge to, or a substitute for, a rate response.

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