The fragile five have been whittled down to three as economic reforms have helped to reduce the vulnerability of the Indian rupee and Indonesian rupiah to the recent bout of emerging market currency weakness. But the Brazilian real, Turkish lira and South African rand will remain particularly vulnerable to periodic sell-offs as we edge towards a first interest rate hike by the Fed.
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