After falling six paise on Thursday, the sentiment was in favour of the rupee today and helped it shrug off a better dollar in overseas markets to log third successive weekly gain.
Exporters preferred to offload dollars head of the US Federal Reserve's annual meet at Jackson Hole today on hopes the Fed may keep interest rate stable at present, a forex dealer said.
At the Interbank Foreign Exchange market, the domestic currency resumed firm at 60.52 a dollar from previous close of 60.67. It moved in a range of 60.3750 and 60.5650 before closing at 60.47, logging a rise of 20 paise or 0.33 per cent. This is its best close since 60.06 on July 30.
The Indian benchmark S&P BSE Sensex today closed further up by 59.44 points, or 0.23
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