KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The ringgit maintained its positive momentum against the US dollar in the early trading session on Thursday, as growing concerns over the global economic...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The ringgit maintained its positive momentum against the US dollar in the early trading session on Thursday, as growing concerns over the global economic outlook shifted more investors towards emerging currencies, including the ringgit, dealers said.
At 9.20am, the local note rose to 4.4370/4405 versus the greenback compared with yesterday’s closing rate of 4.4530/4580. According to ActivTrades trader Dyogenes Rodrigues Diniz, most experts believed that the United States Federal Reserve would not raise its interest rates on Wednesday, given the current fragility of the banking sector.
“However, the Fed did decide to hike interest rates from 4.75 to 5.0 per cent. This is the second increase of just 0.25 per cent that the Fed has adopted, signalling a systematic decrease in interest rate hikes,” he told Bernama.The local note appreciated versus the British pound to 5.4531/4574 from 5.4696/4758 at yesterday’s close, but slipped vis-a-vis the euro to 4.8292/8330 from 4.8026/8080 and weakened against the Japanese yen to 3.3899/3928 from 3.3592/3633 previously.
However, it rose against the Indonesian rupiah to 289.10/289.50 from 290.10/290.60 yesterday and moved up versus the Philippine peso to 8.13/8.14 from 8.16/8.18 previously. — Bernama
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