On Wednesday, February 11, 2026, the Indian rupee lost 14 paise to also fall to 90.70 (tentative) to the U.S. dollar due to continued dollar demand by importers and notable geopolitical uncertainties.
The rupee opened at 90.56 in the interbank foreign exchange market where it experienced fluctuating changes throughout the trading. It reached a high of 90.46 and a low of 90.75 versus the green back and ended the day lower. Forex traders blamed the fall on the consistent need of the dollar by the importers of oil and the cautiousness in the world markets.
In the meantime, the dollar index, which is a measure of the performance of the U.S. currency against a basket of six major world currencies, was trading at 0.26% lower at 96.54. Nevertheless, emerging market currencies such as the rupee were put under pressure despite the softer dollar index, the increase in the price of crude oil and geopolitical issues.
The world oil standard, the Brent crude, rose by 1.44 percent, to sell at a price of 69.78 per barrel in the futures market. An appreciation of the rupee is normally burdened by high prices of crude oil since India is a large importer of oil and higher import bills further increases the trade deficit.
Domestically, the performance of the benchmark indexes was in a mixed fashion. The BSE Sensex fell 40.28 to close at 84,233.64 and the NSE Nifty advanced 18.70 to close at 25,953.85.
As per the exchange statistics, the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were net buyers on Tuesday, buying equities worth ₹69.45 crore, which did not provide a lot of support to the local currency.
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