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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Emerging-market currencies continue to suffer.

 Emerging-market currencies have again fallen following the release of the latest FOMC minutes. The recent spike in U.S. debt yields has caused borrowing costs to increase globally, which, along with the rising dollar, has not been healthy for emerging markets with large current account deficits, such as India. The country's rupee, along with Turkey's lira, hit new record lows, while the currencies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand dropped to multi-year troughs.

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