Hungarian Forint Eases On “Polish Contagion”

  • 9 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
Hungarian Forint Eases On “Polish Contagion”
The forint was trading at 317.71 to the euro late Wednesday on the interbank forex market, down from 316.91 late Tuesday. At 317.23 to the euro early Wednesday, the forint moved between 316.51 and 318.08, after a fifth more than five-month low within a week at 318.32 on Tuesday evening.

While the Greek crisis has again been “postponed” until Sunday, now the Polish zloty sent ripples around the region’s currencies markets after the ruling party there proposed converting Swiss franc loans partly at the cost of Polish banks, imitating the Hungarian method exercised earlier this year. Emerging market contagion anxiety also weighed in view of an apparently unstoppable stock market rout in China.

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