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Cross-currency risks may may get more acute if the euro starts weakening and the dollar starts strengthening, says Harihar.

"It is primarily the dollar index. And today is not a one-off instance. I think the index is headed, very gently, towards the 100 level."

"Two factors, which will impact dollar Rupee equity and the bond market will be Greece in terms of sentiment and the Federal Reserve in ter...

'You hope the system will take the rates down, but the cost of deposits also needs to come down.'

"However, foreign investors had perhaps already factored in a large part of it and therefore, we may not see too much of incremental inflow...

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'In the short term, we expect the trade deficit to be around $10 billion,' says K Harihar.

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"RBI would not probably tinker with either of the CRR or the repo, partly because initial measures are working," says K Harihar, FirstRand ...

"The bond market is going to take more cue from the action that happens on the repo rate side and the real rate rather than the CRR."

Going ahead inflation may stabilise in the 7-7.5 range, which will give space to the RBI cut the rates a little bit more, says K Harihar.

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K Harihar, Treasurer, FirstRand Bank, in an interview with ET Now gives his perspective on rupee. Excerpts:-