mumbai feb 9 reuters  the indian rupee is expected to decline against the us dollar on thursday weighed by hawkish comments from federal reserve officials and higher oil prices the nondeliverable forwards indicated the rupee would open around 82608262 per dollar compared with the 824925 closing in the previous session fed officials on wednesday said more interest rate rises are on the cards in the central banks efforts to bring down inflation moving to a rate of between 500 and 525 seems a very reasonable view new york fed president john williams said fed governor christopher waller said the us central bank will have to keep a tight monetary policy stance for some time minneapolis fed leader neel kashkari said he believes the rate will need to go as high as 54 or even higher if the data called for it fed governor lisa cook emphasized that further hikes are needed in gradual steps the fed rhetoric is now clearly at odds with market pricing of rate cuts later this year dbs group research said in a note fed fund futures are pricing in rate cuts of about 30 to 35 basis points after peaking at around 512 in july the korean won and indonesian rupiah were down 02 each while the offshore chinese yuan was hovering just above 680 to the dollar the 10year us yield was last at 36144 after reaching 3692 last night its highest since jan 6 it had hit 333 a day before the us jobs report brent crude futures inched higher in asia trading adding to its overnight advance oil prices are up over 6 in the last three sessions for the rupee the 8290 level remains the key on the downside and the odds are that we could see narrow intraday ranges for the time being said a foreign exchange trader  brent crude futures up 02 at 853 per barrel  as per nsdl data foreign investors sold a net 2669 mln worth of indian shares on feb 7 reporting by anushka trivedi and nimesh vora editing by dhanya ann thoppil