<h1>Currency depreciation pressures the rupee as fund outflows and rising oil amid geopolitical tensions create a negative bias.</h1> The rupee fell to a record low of 93.71 against the dollar, primarily due to sustained foreign institutional investor outflows and rising global crude prices amid geopolitical tensions; higher energy costs were noted as risks to the trade deficit and inflation, while major central banks' rate-hold stances and recent net foreign equity sales were cited as contextual factors, with analysts forecasting a continued negative bias and a near-term trading range for the spot exchange rate.