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Prospects for EM currencies differ despite broad sell-off

The sell-off in emerging market currencies so far this month has been broad-based, but we expect investors to become more selective soon. We think a number of currencies will probably rebound, while the currencies of economies with large current account deficits will continue to come under pressure as attention increasingly focuses on the timing of interest rate hikes in the US.

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