🇮🇳 Reuters Survey: Bearish bets against the Indian rupee dropped to their lowest level in 11 months after the RBI introduced measures to support the currency and encourage dollar inflows, improving sentiment toward the rupee.
🇰🇷 JPMorgan raises its bull-case target for South Korea's Kospi index to 15,000, implying 77% upside from Wednesday's close of 8,471.
The bank also lifted its base-case target to 12,500 and bear-case target to 8,000, while maintaining its highest overweight on Korean equities and recommending investors buy on dips, citing AI strength, improving earnings, and continued retail inflows.
🇮🇳 Market participants say the Reserve Bank of India may be selling U.S. dollars through state-owned banks to support the rupee. Traders also suggest the bank could be doing USD/INR buy-and-sell swaps alongside spot market intervention.