{"id":37184,"date":"2018-08-31T07:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37184"},"modified":"2018-08-31T07:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:31:53","slug":"rupiah-plunges-to-1998-asian-financial-crisis-low-amid-emerging-market-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37184","title":{"rendered":"Rupiah Plunges To 1998 Asian Financial Crisis Low Amid Emerging Market Liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-31\/rupiah-plunges-asian-financial-crisis-low-amid-emerging-market-liquidation\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Rupiah Plunges To 1998 Asian Financial Crisis Low Amid Emerging Market Liquidation<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1173\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1173\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Despite four rate hikes by the Bank of Indonesia since May, the Indonesia\u2019s rupiah slid to a two-decade low, falling to 14,750 per dollar, a level last hit during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, and just shy of an all time low, spurring yet another intervention from the central bank as the contagion from the collapse in Argentina and Turkey has turned the market&#8217;s attention on emerging markets with current account deficits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/usdinr.jpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/usdinr.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/usdinr.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/usdinr.jpg?itok=ADPe7Iiv 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4084f2a9-a2b1-4a34-87ee-751987d20b3e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s benchmark bond yields rose 10 basis points to the highest level since 2016, while the Jakarta Composite Index slipped as much as 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The plunge took place despite a notice from the central bank that it was intervening in the foreign exchange and bond markets, according to Nanang Hendarsah, executive director for monetary management.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, after Argentina and Turkey, Indonesia is next to be hit on this chart from JPM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-31\/why-turkey-and-argentina-are-doomed-one-jpmorgan-chart\">we first showed <\/a>at the start of June, which plotted countries with a <strong>current account deficit and rising external debt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/turkey%20argentina.jpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/turkey%20argentina.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/turkey%20argentina.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/turkey%20argentina.jpg?itok=ZdWL7wq6 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"cdae3a8e-bbd1-49a4-b36b-5899444809e0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rupiah is down 7.8% this year, and first came under pressure from a resurgent greenback and climbing U.S. Treasury yields. The escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, followed by the Turkey turmoil then added to its woes. It\u2019s the second-worst performing major Asian currency this year, after the Indian rupee.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over in India, the rupee also fell to a new record low, trading 71.035 against the dollar, set for the biggest monthly decline in three years, although so far India&#8217;s capital markets excluding FX have barely been affected, with the Nifty trading just shy of all time highs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/usdrupee.jpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/usdrupee.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/usdrupee.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/usdrupee.jpg?itok=2wb4aUb- 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a8092c59-3574-4d67-b276-c9ade6083e3a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-31\/rupiah-falls-to-asian-crisis-low-as-emerging-market-pain-spreads\">Bloomberg notes<\/a>, as investors liquidated Turkish and Argentinian assets, <strong>countries with large current-account deficits such as Indonesia and India have also seen their currencies and bonds come under selling pressure.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupiah Plunges To 1998 Asian Financial Crisis Low Amid Emerging Market Liquidation Despite four rate hikes by the Bank of Indonesia since May, the Indonesia\u2019s rupiah slid to a two-decade low, falling to 14,750 per dollar, a level last hit during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, and just shy of an all time low, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[951,1732,1444,21455,21454,4318],"class_list":["post-37184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-currency","tag-emerging-markets","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesian-rupiah","tag-rupiah","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37185,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37184\/revisions\/37185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}