Asian currencies: South Korean won, Indonesian rupiah slip – Business & Finance

JAKARTA: Among currencies, the South Korean won and the Indonesian rupiah slipped around 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively, while the Philippine peso rose 0.2%. The rupiah’s fall to a two-week low of 16,295 per dollar prompted the central bank to intervene in the foreign exchange market. Late last month, the currency had depreciated to its weakest since April 2020 before recovering…

What’s a Carry Trade Again? And When Is It Not a Moneymaker? – BNN Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Here’s what sounds like a surefire way to improve an asset’s returns: Use cheaper money to buy it. That’s the core of what’s known as a foreign-currency carry trade. Investors take advantage of a difference in interest rates between two countries to borrow where the rate is low and invest where it’s high. Carry trades are especially popular…

Sterling Update: Pound Faces Corrections Amid Weak UK Retail Sales

Here’s the latest currency news from our partner Moneycorp, to help you find out what your money is worth. GBP The pound saw some corrections in value at the end of last week after Friday’s UK retail sales showed weaker-than-expected spending for June. Sales volumes dropped by 1.2% versus the anticipated -0.6%, with the cooler, wetter weather being blamed. This was…

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