Wealth Monitor April 2016 | Page 34

CURRENCIES | Dealing With Divergence Different monetary policy stance of the ECB and the Federal Reserve is creating volatile conditions in currency markets, says Abhishek Goenka, Founder and CEO, IFA Global DMCC I n February, the Indian rupee weakened against the dollar and, for the month, closed at fresh record low levels. And in line with its past performance in March the rupee managed to appreciate against the dollar. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor in its previous policy meeting has been vocal and stated that the central bank wishes to curb the volatility of the rupee rather than protecting a level, either on the downside or on the upside, 32 www.wealth-monitor.com | April 2016