After a brief pause, the rupee today once again fell back to its old ways, slipping by 6 paise to end at 67.21 a dollar on fag-end demand for the American unit from banks and importers amid fall in domestic stocks.
Weakness of dollar in the global markets and foreign capital outflows also affected the rupee sentiment, a forex dealer said.
The rupee opened higher at 67.12 against yesterday’s closing level of 67.15 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market here today on initial selling of dollars by exporters.
However, it dropped afterwards to 67.33 before ending at 67.21 on fag-end dollar demand from banks and importers, showing a loss of six paise or 0.09 per cent.
The domestic currency hovered in a range of 67.12 and 67.3350 per dollar during the day.
The rupee had gained by 12 paise or 0.18 per cent against the American currency yesterday.
Meanwhile, the dollar index was up 0.42 per cent against the basket of six global currencies in the late afternoon trade.
The RBI fixed the reference rate for the $ at 67.2068 and € at 75.8160.
In cross-currency trades, the rupee recovered against the £ to close at 94.97 from 95.31 yesterday and moved up further against the € to 75.21 from 75.40.
However, the domestic currency dropped against the Japanese yen to 64.39 per 100 yens from 63.19.