Thursday, June 21, 2007

Asian Currencies Drop as Yield Advantage Narrows; Taiwan Dollar Advances

(Bloomberg) -- Southeast Asian currencies, including
the Indonesian rupiah and the Philippine peso, dropped because
investors cut holdings of emerging-market assets as U.S. bonds
extended declines.

The rupiah and the peso had their biggest slide in a week as
rising Treasury yields narrowed the premium investors receive for
holding emerging-market debt. Fund managers get 3.62 percentage
points more by keeping Indonesian 10-year bonds instead of
similar-maturity U.S. Treasuries, down from 3.85 percentage
points at the beginning of June.


Read more at Bloomberg Currencies News

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