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Sunday, June 2, 2013

South African rand gets walloped in EM blood-letting.

 Emerging-market currencies are taking a battering, with the South African rand (EZA) receiving particular punishment. What began as a "drip drip of currency weakness" (WSJ) on concerns about the end of the Fed's QE program has turned into a flood as countries' various problems have become exposed. The rand is down 6.2% since last week and the Turkish lira is -2.25%.

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