“We have seen targeted kind of intervention by the President of the Bank of India, because you can't let the markets decide what the exchange rate will be… it's not going to be the market itself leads to enlarged volatility.”

The Core Report · #1004 Why IT Stocks Are Bouncing Back

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targeted intervention in the foreign-exchange market to prevent speculative volatility and keep the rupee from large swings

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