{"id":360963,"date":"2026-03-27T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/360963\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:34:21","slug":"rupee-hits-record-low-past-94-usd-as-prospect-of-prolonged-iran-war-deepens-energy-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/360963\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupee hits record low past 94\/USD as prospect of prolonged Iran war deepens energy risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">MUMBAI, March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The Indian rupee hit a record low past \u200cthe 94-per-dollar mark on Friday, hammered \u200cby worries that the energy supply crisis sparked \u200bby the Middle East war will drag on, deepening the pressure on energy importing economies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The rupee fell to 94.1575 per \u200cdollar, eclipsing its \u2060previous all-time low of 93.98 hit earlier this week. It \u2060has declined about 3.5% since the war began late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The threat of \u200ba protracted \u200benergy shock has \u200bkept oil prices \u200cabove the $100-per-barrel mark, weighing on global equities and sending bond yields higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Analysts have shaved growth forecasts for India, with some also anticipating rate hikes by the \u200cReserve Bank of India \u200bover the next 12 \u200bmonths as the \u200bspillovers from the crisis threaten \u200cto lift inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Even if \u200ba lengthy \u200bconflict is avoided, Bernstein sees a realistic chance of the rupee breaching \u200bthe 98-per-dollar \u200clevel this year, with pressure primarily \u200bstemming from India&#8217;s current account balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Jaspreet Kalra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUMBAI, March 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The Indian rupee hit a record low past \u200cthe 94-per-dollar mark on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,1435,174582,85,7529,46,21274],"class_list":["post-360963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-energy","tag-energy-supply-crisis","tag-il","tag-indian-rupee","tag-israel","tag-reserve-bank-of-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}