Thursday, January 24, 2013

Strong rupee alarms local BPO industry

For the Philippines’s $13-billion business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry, the peso’s surge has been compounded by a slide in larger rival India’s rupee.
The peso’s 6.5-percent gain to 40.618 per dollar in 12 months makes it Asia’s best performer, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, while the rupee’s 6.7-percent slump to 53.67 is the region’s third-worst decline. Both currencies traded around 44 to 45 versus the greenback two years ago.   Read more

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