INDIAN EQUITY BENCHMARK closed higher central banker
Raghuram Rajan's attempt to talk up the rupee and calm
equity and bond markets, a day earlier, too helped. Meanwhile,
Wholesale Prices Inflation (WPI) numbers accelerated to an
eight-month high of 7.0% in October, mainly driven by higher
fuel and manufactured goods prices, government data showed
on Thursday. WPI had risen 6.46% in September.