{"id":93392,"date":"2018-10-09T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/how-rupee-slide-is-stinging-firms-with-unhedged-foreign-debt\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:03:12","slug":"how-rupee-slide-is-stinging-firms-with-unhedged-foreign-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/how-rupee-slide-is-stinging-firms-with-unhedged-foreign-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"How rupee slide is stinging firms with unhedged foreign debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>   By Anurag Joshi and Anto Antony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rupees free-fall is hurting the minority of Indian firms that havent hedged their overseas borrowings. <\/p>\n<p>India Inc. overall is better off than several years ago, after more companies with foreign-currency debt bought protection against <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rupee\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rupee<\/a> declines, which otherwise would push up the cost to service those obligations. But theres still a group of debtors that lack such safeguards, just as the rupees tumble worsens and a wall of debt comes due. <\/p>\n<p>As the rupee slides to fresh lows and U.S. rates move sharply higher, unhedged Indian firms that swapped overseas debt into the local currency and that dont have foreign-currency revenues face sharply higher repayment costs. The plight of such borrowers stands out after many peers boosted hedges in recent years. As much as 75 percent of the external commercial borrowings of Indian companies are now hedged, according to Samir Lodha, managing director and forex hedging strategist at QuantArt Market Solutions. <\/p>\n<p>Indian companies went on a borrowing spree abroad in the past few years, when the local currency was stronger. The rupee has lost more than 13 percent this year and touched fresh lows against the <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/dollar-industries-ltd\/stocks\/companyid-65885.cms\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dollar<\/a>, making it the worst performer among major Asian currencies, amid a selloff in emerging-market assets. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Bloomberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While hedging has become more common, there is still a lot of foreign debt out there. Indian firms, both hedged and unhedged, face $28 billion of non-rupee bonds and loans coming due in 2019, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That level is similar to elevated figures in recent years, when borrowing costs were lower. <\/p>\n<p>Read about the central bank staring down the rupees slide <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Indian companies are not fully hedged due to high costs for covering exchange risk or a natural hedge,\u201d said Abhishek Dangra, a Singapore-based analyst at S&amp;P Global Ratings. \u201cSome of these companies may see higher refinancing risks.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/markets\/stocks\/news\/how-rupee-slide-is-stinging-firms-with-unhedged-foreign-debt\/articleshow\/66132409.cms\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/60278104.cms\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ET Markets<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anurag Joshi and Anto Antony<\/p>\n<p>The rupees free-fall is hur..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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