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BENGALURU/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Battered emerging market currencies will only pare some of their recent steep losses over the coming year, according to analysts polled by Reuters who said a sell-off was likely in the next three months with rising U.S. yields posing a big risk.
FILE PHOTO: Brazilian Real and U.S. dollar notes are pictured at a currency exchange office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this September 10, 2015 photo illustration. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Having strengthened over 3% in 2020, an index of emerging market currencies erased nearly half of those gains in the last three months as reflation bets spurred by massive U.S. fiscal stimulus drove the dollar index to a four-month high.