Moreover, escalation of geopolitical risks due to conflict in Ukraine, a negative trend in domestic equities and significant foreign fund outflows sapped the investor appetite, forex traders said.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 81.47 against the greenback, then fell to 81.52, registering a fall of 43 paise over its previous closing.
On Friday, the rupee slumped 30 paise to close at a fresh lifetime low of 81.09 against the US dollar.
The Indian rupee is likely to remain weaker as investors expect that the US Fed will continue to hike interest rates aggressively to cool inflation, Sriram Iyer, senior research analyst at Reliance Securities, said.
“Focus now shifts to RBI’s meeting this week, with its decision due on Friday. We expect RBI to hike rates by 50 bps to cool stubbornly high inflation and prevent the currency from weakening further,” Iyer said.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, advanced 0.67 per cent to 113.94.
Foreign institutional investors were net sellers in the capital market on Friday as they offloaded shares worth Rs 2,899.68 crore, as per exchange data.
Meanwhile, the country’s forex reserves declined $5.219 billion to $545.652 billion for the week ended September 16.
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