MUMBAI: India’s current account deficit widened sharply last quarter, a factor that could pressurise the rupee before an expected reduction in US stimulus in coming months.
The shortfall was US$14.3 billion April-June, or 2.4% of gross domestic product, the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement last Friday.
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